Your Father's Room

by Michel Déon, Julian Evans (Translator)

Overview

The acclaimed author of The Foundling Boy brings us a fictionalised memoir about a childhood between Paris and Monaco. 

'A delight' Independent on Sunday

A vivid recreation of the interwar period, Michel Déon's fictionalised memoir is a touching and very true depiction of boyhood and how our early experiences affect us.

Édouard (Michel Déon's real name) looks back on his 1920s childhood spent in Paris and Monte Carlo. Within a bourgeois yet unconventional upbringing, 'Teddy', an observant and sensitive boy, must deal with not just the universal trials of growing up, but also the sudden tragedy that strikes at the heart of his family. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910477472
Publisher:	Gallic Books
Publication date:	06/12/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	949 KB

About the Author

Michel Déon published over fifty works. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Interallié for his 1970 novel, Les Poneys Sauvages (The Wild Ponies). His 1973 novel, Un Taxi Mauve, garnered him international renown when it received the esteemed title of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. His novels have been translated into numerous languages. He was considered one of the most innovative French writers of the 21st century. A member of the Académie française, Déon was one of just forty members who are elected by their peers to serve for life. Déon died in 2016.

Julian Evans grew up in Australia and London in the 1960s. He is a writer and translator. He has written and presented radio and television documentaries and writes for English and French newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, Prospect, Times Literary Supplement and L’Atelier du Roman. He is a recipient of the Prix du Rayonnement de la Langue Française from the Académie Française. He currently lives in London with his wife and their two children.

Michel Déon (1919-2016) is the author of more than 50 works of fiction and non-fiction, and a member of the Académie française. His 1970 novel Les Poneys Sauvages was awarded the prestigious Prix Interallié and in 1973 Le Taxi Mauve (later made into a film starring Fred Astaire and Charlotte Rampling) won the Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie Française. Le Jeune Homme Vert (The Foundling Boy) was published in 1975, with the sequel published two years later.
Julian Evans grew up on Australia’s east coast and in the south London suburbs in the 1960s. He is the author of Transit of Venus and his latest book is Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis (Jonathan Cape, Picador).He has also written and presented radio and television documentaries and writes for English and French newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, Prospect, Times Literary Supplement and L’Atelier du Roman. He translates from French and German and is a recipient of the Prix du Rayonnement de la Langue Française from the Académie Française. He is also a Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow. He lives in Bristol and London.

Editorial Reviews

'Wonderful, immersive. He deserves to have a wider English audience' Historical Novel Society Magazine

'Artfully told... readers, propelled by Julian Evans silky-smooth translation, will find the ride in Déon's balloon exhilarating' TLS

'Wryly funny prose ... a delight' Independent on Sunday

'Your Father's Room  is a bittersweet masterpiece of confusion and heartache, nuance and atmosphere (...)Nostalgic and disturbingly familiar, Michel Déon's remembrance of things past is well worth reading.' BookBlast

Praise for Michel Déon

'It is shamefully parochial of us that this eminent writer has been so ignored' Sunday Times

'A big-hearted coming-of-age shaggy-dog story ... leaves you feeling better about life' The Spectator 

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