{"product_id":"9781612195872","title":"La Femme de Gilles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A haunting, slim novel which has the mesmeric inevitability of a classical tragedy.\" —\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa Femme de Gilles tells the story of a fatal love triangle—written on the eve of World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet among the dusty lanes and rolling valleys of rural 1930s Belgium, \u003ci\u003eLa Femme de Gilles \u003c\/i\u003eis the tale of a young mother, Elisa, whose world is overturned when she discovers that her husband, Gilles, has fallen in love with her younger sister, Victorine. Devastated, Elisa unravels. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs controlled as Elena Ferrante's \u003ci\u003eThe Days of Abandonment \u003c\/i\u003eand as propulsive as Jenny Offill's \u003ci\u003eDept. of Speculation, La Femme de Gilles\u003c\/i\u003e is a hauntingly contemporary story of desperation and lust and obsession, from an essential early-feminist writer.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust after her novel was first published in 1937, Madeleine Bourdouxhe disassociated herself from her publisher (which had been taken over by the Nazis) and spent most of World War II in Brussels, actively working for the resistance. Though she continued to write, her work was largely overlooked by history . . . until now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018634248432,"sku":"9781612195872","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612195872_p0.jpg?v=1763843247","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612195872","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}