{"product_id":"9781934137550","title":"The Child","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Intense and bravely uncompromising. An adult study of pain, thwarted affection, and guarded privacies in a world at the edge of violent public breakdown. An impressive achievement.” — \u003cb\u003eDAVID MALOUF\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eRansom: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimone and Claude live in a house with a lush garden, surrounded by a hedge that barely protects them from the growing violence and unrest in their low-income neighborhood. Simone mourns the loss of youth and possibility as Claude, a gym teacher who has been diagnosed with cancer, edges toward death. This is an unflinching portrait of a couple ravaged by illness and locked into mutual isolation—that is, until the arrival of a young boy brings hope and upsets their delicate \u003ci\u003edanse macabre\u003c\/i\u003e to devastating effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePascale Kramer dissects romantic love’s psychic carnage while unsentimentally revealing the unique beauty born of an adult’s love for a child. As does Marguerite Duras, she wields spare language like a club and plumbs emotional depths rarely reached outside of poetry. A brilliant collision of hope and despair, \u003ci\u003eThe Child\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePascale Kramer\u003c\/b\u003e, recipient of the 2017 Swiss Grand Prize for Literature, is the author of fourteen books, including three novels published in English: \u003ci\u003eThe Living\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eThe Child\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eAutopsy of a Father\u003c\/i\u003e . Born in Geneva, she has worked in Los Angeles, and now lives in Paris, where she directs a documentary film festival about children’s rights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bellevue Literary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053263470832,"sku":"9781934137550","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934137550_p0.jpg?v=1763641814","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934137550","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}