The Beginners [Paperback]

Anna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with Thomas. Intelligent and handsome, but apparently scarred by a terrible early emotional wound, he reminds Anna ofQuintessential Anne Serrethis restless, prowling novel explores love as a form of greed, and confused need as one shape of bereftness Genuinely originaland, often, very quietly so. Prim and racy, seriously weird and seriously excellent, Hypnotic, enchanting. Strange, beguiling: a jewel. [A] wry, unconventional novel about a woman's desire. Her books that have been translated into English