Having collected, among other things, cocktail sticks, electoral campaign badges, paintings of moored ships, rabbits' feet, noises at five in the morning, Croatian maxims, staircase ornaments, the first pages of novels, the labels on melons, birds' eggs, moments with you, hangmen's nooses, Hector finally falls in love. It's the way she washes windows that does it for him. And so begins his new infatuation, a collection (and recollection) of beautifully observed moments spent observing his wife's every move. A stirring portrayal of erotic obsession and its whims.
ISBN: | 9781846590450 |
Publication date: | 8th September 2008 |
Author: | David Foenkinos |
Publisher: | Telegram Books an imprint of Saqi Books |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 157 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |