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3.5 

This Tilting World

By Colette Fellous & Sophie Lewis
This Tilting World by Colette Fellous & Sophie Lewis digital book - Fable

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. . . "a reflection—sensitive and honest—on our present, this impossible present, this threshold between yesterday and a complex future, where we 'see also how our life was entirely manufactured by the political history, even though we thought it belonged to us, that it was ‘personal.’'" —Diacritik

"Colette Fellous isn’t lacking an address, but has two homelands: her birthplace, Tunisia, and her language, French. Between them is an arc, a tension, an energy: that of a double belonging which does not alienate but provides an opening." —Le Monde

"[Fellous] enchants with her way of capturing emotions, sensations, moments, and people. She elegantly opens the doors to the past." —Livres Hebdo

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3.5
“This book is a love letter to a country that can never quite love you back. Fellous writes with such tenderness, particularly for her father, that I kept closing the pages so I could sit in the feeling of her words. While I felt left behind at times by how the thoughts wandered across the page, I enjoyed that the story always returned to Sidi Bou Saïd and the people whose stories breathe life into a story fraught by grief.”

About Colette Fellous

The author of more than twenty novels, including Aujourd’hui (2005), for which she received the Prix Marguerite Duras, and La Préparation de la vie (2014), in which she pays homage to her mentor Roland Barthes, Colette Fellous lives between France and Tunisia. A former publisher, and a radio producer for France Culture, she is also a photographer. This Tilting World is her first book published in English.

Sophie Lewis has been translating fiction and other literature from French since graduating from Oxford University in 2004. Following a stay in Rio de Janeiro, from 2011 to 2015, she began translating from Portuguese. Her translations include works by Stendhal, Jules Verne, Marcel Aymé, Violette Leduc, Emmanuelle Pagano, Natalia Borges Polesso, and João Gilberto Noll. She has pursued a career in publishing alongside translation, running the UK office at Dalkey Archive Press, then as Senior Editor at And Other Stories publisher, and currently as fiction editor at the Folio Society.

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