A Leopard-Skin Hat [Paperback]

A quintessential early novel about an intense friendship, by the winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle.? I love Anne Serre, translated by Mark Hutchinson, for the rippling unreality of her prose. Reading her is like watching a mirage flicker in and out of focus. Anne Serres short novel is?the?deeply romantic telling?of?a?platonic love story between?the?narrator and his complicated childhood friend, Fanny;?a?story so beautifully realisedand translated so sensitively by Mark Hutchinsonthat?the?pair become part?of?the?life?of?the?reader.?A?perfectly balanced book, slender?in?size but bearing significant weight all?the?way through,? Genuinely originaland, often, very quietly so. Wry, unconventional. Putting down one of Anne Serres books is like coming up for air. Readers will be moved by this probing story about the unknowability of others. Exuberantly anti-realist and avowedly fictional...The story of Fanny and the Narrator is a story about our impulse to understand one another and about the way in which unknowability is what makes someone interesting.