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The Medusa Child
"Sylvie Germain's The Medusa Child beautifully translated from the French by Liz Nash, tells a heartbreaking and violent story about sin and redemption in fantastical language; a myth from la France profonde."
Books of the Year in The Independent on Sunday
'Germain's language is redolent with decay, rich with religious torment and ecstasy, and filled with the decadence so loved by this publisher.'
Time Out
'The Medusa Child is her most accessible novel, and my favourite. A coherent pattern of metaphor depicts an enchanted country childhood. Lucie explores the marshes around her home and studies the stars. But when she is given a room of her own, an ogre starts to pay her nocturnal visits. Helpless and alone, Lucie decides to fight back by turning herself into a monster. This is a superb and compassionate study of damage and resistance.'
Michele Roberts in Mslexia
Books of the Year in The Independent on Sunday
'Germain's language is redolent with decay, rich with religious torment and ecstasy, and filled with the decadence so loved by this publisher.'
Time Out
'The Medusa Child is her most accessible novel, and my favourite. A coherent pattern of metaphor depicts an enchanted country childhood. Lucie explores the marshes around her home and studies the stars. But when she is given a room of her own, an ogre starts to pay her nocturnal visits. Helpless and alone, Lucie decides to fight back by turning herself into a monster. This is a superb and compassionate study of damage and resistance.'
Michele Roberts in Mslexia
Book Details
- Publisher: Dedalus
- Publish Date: Feb 14th, 2021
- Pages: 246
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - 0002
- Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.00in - 1.00in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9781912868292
- Categories: • Magical Realism• Family Life - General• Literary
About the Author
Nash, Liz: - Liz Nash was born in Northern Ireland in 1952. She was a teacher of French and German and a freelance translator. Her translations for Dedalus are The Medusa Child, Infinite Possibities by Sylvie Germain and The Man in Flames by Serge Filippini. She died in 2010.
Germain, Sylvie: - Sylvie Germain was born in Chateauroux in Central France in 1954. She read philosophy at the Sorbonne, being awarded a doctorate. From 1987 until the summer of 1993 she taught philosophy at the French School in Prague. She now lives in Angouleme. Sylvie Germain is the author of thirteen works of fiction, eleven of which have been published by Dedalus, a study of the painter Vermeer and a religious meditation. Her work has been translated into twenty one languages and has received worldwide acclaim.
Praise for this book
"The omnipresent sense of sin and salvation shows what a good writer Germain can be." --Carole Morin, The New Statesman
"Germain's language is redolent with decay, rich with religious torment and ecstasy, and filled with the decadence so loved by this publisher." --Time Out