Charlotte
- 4 Jan 2018
- 9781782117964
- £9.99
- 224 pp
- 129×198mm
- 2 Feb 2017
- 9781782117957
- £7.99
- 224 pp
In a few words
The international bestseller: the tragic and triumphant story of one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary but little-known artists. ‘Sad, beautiful, indignant, wrenching, important’ Sarah Perry, author of THE ESSEX SERPENT
In a few words
The international bestseller: the tragic and triumphant life and death of one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary artists. ‘Sad, beautiful, indignant, wrenching, important’ Sarah Perry, author of THE ESSEX SERPENT
I am deeply, deeply affected by this sad, beautiful, indignant, wrenching, important book . . . It is an artistic privilege and (I think) almost a moral duty that you all read this
Sarah Perry, Author Of The Essex Serpent
Foenkinos writes arrestingly about Charlotte, masterfully imagining her interior life . . . So much space on the page visually transforms each paragraph into a stanza, while lending the words a solemn weight and power . . . [A] beautiful, wretched story
I am deeply, deeply affected by this sad, beautiful, indignant, wrenching, important book . . . It is an artistic privilege and (I think) almost a moral duty that you all read this
Sarah Perry, Author Of The Essex Serpent
An astonishing novel. Every line has something profound to say about love and loss, hope and fear, time and memory, and the enduring power of art
Andrew Michael Hurley, Author Of The Loney
More about
the book
Charlotte Salomon is born into a family stricken by suicide and a country at war. But there is something exceptional about her – she has a gift, a talent for painting. And she has a great love, for a brilliant, eccentric musician. But just as she is coming into her own as an artist, death is coming to control her country. The Nazis have come to power and, as a Jew in Berlin, Charlotte’s life is narrowing, and she knows every second is precious.
Inspiring, unflinching, terrible and hopeful, Charlotte is the heartbreaking true story of a life filled with curiosity, animated by genius and cut short by hatred.
More about
the book
Charlotte Salomon is born into a family stricken by suicide and a country at war. But there is something exceptional about her – she has a gift, a talent for painting. And she has a great love, for a brilliant, eccentric musician. But just as she is coming into her own as an artist, death is coming to control her country. The Nazis have come to power and, as a Jew in Berlin, Charlotte’s life is narrowing, and she knows every second is precious.
Inspiring, unflinching, terrible and hopeful, Charlotte is the heartbreaking true story of a life filled with curiosity, animated by genius and cut short by hatred.
An astonishing novel. Every line has something profound to say about love and loss, hope and fear, time and memory, and the enduring power of art
Andrew Michael Hurley, Author Of The Loney
From its striking first sentence there is no turning away . . . A far superior tribute to any commemorative plaque
Sara Baume
Irish TimesEach sentence begins on a new line, giving it the deceptive look of a long poem. The success of this approach, loyally managed by Sam Taylor in his translation, is the make Charlotte read as a series of tricker-tape bulletins, delivered in breathless fits and starts
Unforgettable, poetic
From its striking first sentence there is no turning away . . . A far superior tribute to any commemorative plaque
Sara Baume
Irish TimesUnforgettable, poetic
Quietly but deeply moving, incredibly powerful in its simplicity
Claire North, Author Of The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August
A life-changer
Polly Clark, Author Of Larchfield
