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The
2003 Award
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Five Photos of My Wife by
Agnès Desarthe
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Flamingo ISBN 0007100922 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Max Opass and his wife Telma had an intense and loving relationship for the forty-nine years of their marriage, so much so that Max would feel 'a pain in my stomach, a little sensation of suffocation' when separated from her. After her death, he thinks it would be a sincere and loving tribute to have her portrait painted, and so selects five artists from the Yellow Pages. Through his encounters with these artists, Max slowly and painfully comes to realise how little he actually knew his wife and he is brought to a new appreciation of memory, love and loss. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Agnès Desarthe is the author of two previous novels for adults, Un Secret Sans Importance and Quelques Minutes de Bonheur Absolu. Five Photos of My Wife is her first book to be published in English. She lives in Paris with her husband and children. |
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