Not One Day

An intimate, sensuous exploration of memory and desire, delving into loves and lusts past, by Oulipo member Anne Garreta.

About the author

Anne Garréta, author of the groundbreaking novel Sphinx (Deep Vellum, 2015), is a member of the renowned Oulipo literary group. Not One Day won the Prix Médicis in 2002, recognizing Garréta as an author ¿whose fame does not yet match their talent.¿ Garréta is also the author of In Concrete, translated by Emma Ramadan (Deep Vellum, 2021).

Emma Ramadan is a literary translator of poetry and prose from France, the Middle East, and North Africa. She is the recipient of a Fulbright, an NEA Translation Fellowship, a PEN/Heim grant, and the 2018 Albertine Prize. Her translations for Deep Vellum include Anne Garrétäs Sphinx and In Concrete, Fouad Laroui's The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers, and Brice Matthieussent's Revenge of the Translator.

Summary

Winner of the 2018 Albertine Prize

Finalist for the 2018 Lamba Literary Awards

Finalist for the 2018 French American Foundation Translation Prize

Available in a new edition, Anne Garréta's sensual portrayal of trysts past.

A tour de force of experimental queer feminist writing, Not One Day is renowned Oulipo member Anne Garréta's intimate exploration of the delicate connection between memory, fantasy, love, and desire. Garréta, author of the acclaimed genderless love story Sphinx and experimental novel In Concrete, vows to write every day about a woman from her past. With exquisite elegance, she revisits bygone loves and lusts, capturing memories of her past relationships in a captivating, erotic composition of momentary interactions and lasting impressions, of longing and of loss.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Garréta, Garreta Anne, Anne Garrta
• Assisted by: Ramadan Emma (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781646052059
• ISBN: 978-1-64605-205-9
• No. of pages: 168
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / World Literature / France / 21st Century, desire;france;affair;lesbian;LGBT;short story; oulipo, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, oulipo; desire; lesbian; short story; france; LGBT; affair