The Neptune room /
Sandrine's parents are dead, or they're about to be. Her father, certainly, her mother, not quite yet. Alone and suffering from an incurable disease, the eleven-year-old girl finds companionship in her doctor, Tiresias, who morphologically changes sex in unpredictable ways and seemingly wi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the French. |
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Toronto :
Book*hug Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First English edition. |
| Series: | Literature in translation series.
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| Summary: | Sandrine's parents are dead, or they're about to be. Her father, certainly, her mother, not quite yet. Alone and suffering from an incurable disease, the eleven-year-old girl finds companionship in her doctor, Tiresias, who morphologically changes sex in unpredictable ways and seemingly without anyone noticing. The Neptune Room, a melancholic tale about the mysteries of identity and the power dynamics associated with it, opens a door unto a universe of agonies, the long agony of an entire civilization and, microscopically, the spectrum of pain experienced by a young girl and those around her. Voicing anguish and perpetual mourning, The Neptune Room is a poetic novel, at once artful and compassionate, kaleidoscopic in its chronology, and resoundingly sombre. It is about change, great and small, and all the little deaths along the way, both public and private. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: La chambre Neptune. |
| Physical Description: | 206 pages : portraits ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781771665810 1771665815 |