Hunting and Gathering

Informationen zum Autor Born in 1970, Anna Gavalda was a teacher whose collection of stories, I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere, shot her to fame (published in the UK with her novella Someone I Loved) . Her novel Hunting and Gathering ( Ensemble c'est tout ) was a bestseller in several countries, selling over two million copies, and was made into a film; this was followed by Consolation . Her books have been translated into thirty-six languages. The mother of two children, she lives and writes just outside Paris. Klappentext Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Philibert Marquet de La Durbellière is a stammering, erudite aristocrat who sells postcards outside a museum. One evening he overcomes his own excruciating reticence to rescue Camille, unconscious, from her freezing garret, and install her in the large, ornate apartment he is caretaking downstairs. He already has an unlikely flatmate, the foul-mouthed, talented working-class young chef, Franck, who is made more obnoxious by guilt about the beloved grandmother he's had to put in a home. Together, this curious, damaged little quartet may be able to face the world. HUNTING AND GATHERING is a universal story about despair, love and the virtues of ensemble-playing in a naughty world. Zusammenfassung One freezing evening Philibert overcomes his excruciating reitcence to rescue Camille, unconscious, from her garret and bring her into his home. As she recovers Camille learns more about Philibert;

Product details

• Authors: Anna Gavalda, Gavalda Anna
• Assisted by: Alison Anderson (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.06.2007
• EAN: 9780099494072
• ISBN: 978-0-09-949407-2
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, France, FICTION / Literary, contemporary romance, Fiction in translation, c 2000 to c 2009, Paris (City), FICTION / World Literature / France / 20th Century, amelie; love story; ensemble c'est tout; i wish