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Lullaby

Lullaby

by Leila Slimani
Paperback
Publication Date: 24/01/2018

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The number-one bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt set in contemporary Paris, a compulsive, riveting and bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity and motherhood.

The baby is dead. It only took a few seconds.

When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint and is able to host enviable birthday parties.

The couple and nanny become more dependent on each other. But as jealousy, resentment and suspicions increase, Myriam and Paul's idyllic tableau is shattered...

ISBN:
9780571337538
9780571337538
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
24-01-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
216x135x15mm
Weight:
0.25kg
Leila Slimani

Leila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby.

A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture.

Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.

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