My Year of Love

by Paul Nizon, Jean M Snook (Translator)

Overview

A riot of confession, complaint, and sensual detail, this novel charts the first year alone of a man who has abandoned his wife, life, family, and homeland, seeking an impossible ideal: freedom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564788443
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	07/02/2013
Series:	Swiss Literature Series
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Paul Nizon was born in Berne in 1929. After an early career as an art historian and critic, he turned to writing full time in 1962, and moved to Paris in 1977, where he still resides. His work has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2011.

Jean M. Snook lives with her husband on the easternmost tip of North America, the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland, where she has taught German language and literature at Memorial Universitysince 1984. She received the 2011 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator s Prize for her translation of Gert Jonke s The Distant Sound.