Philippe Besson

The Summer Boy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• ANZ Only
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 135mm
• ISBN-13: 9781398556683
• ISBN-10: 1398556688
• Artikelnr.: 75885639

Autorenporträt

Philippe Besson is a prizewinning author, screenwriter, and playwright. His first novel, In the Absence of Men, was awarded the Emmanuel-Roblès Prize in 2001, and he is also the author of Lie with Me, a #1 French bestseller. His novels have been translated into twenty different languages. Sam Taylor is an award-winning literary translator and novelist. He has translated over seventy books from French including works by high-profile authors such as Laurent Binet, Leïla Slimani, David Diop, Maylis de Kerangal, and Marcel Proust. His translations have received recognition from the International Booker Prize, National Book Award, Dublin Literary Award, Scott-Moncrieff Prize, French-American Foundation Translation Prize, and Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Born in England, Sam was a journalist at The Observer (London) before moving to France. He now lives in Texas with his family and is working on his sixth novel.