A Leopard-Skin Hat - Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025

A series of short scenes paints the portrait of a strong-willed and tormented young woman battling many demons, and of the Narrator''s loving and anguished attachment to her. Serre poignantly depicts the bewildering back and forth between hope and despair involved in such a relationship, while playfully calling into question the very form of the novel. Written in the aftermath of the death of the author''s little sister, A Leopard-Skin Hat is both the celebration of a tragically foreshortened life and a valedictory farewell. Translated from French by Mark Hutchinson.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Serre
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9781837311194
• ISBN: 978-1-83731-119-4
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 180 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Psychological, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / World Literature / France / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Health and illness