Nathacha Appanah

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Nothing Belongs to You by Nathacha Appanah (transl. Jeffrery Zuckerman): No denying the past

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I remembered enjoying Nathacha Appanah’s beautifully crafted The Sky Above the Roof last year which prompted me to put up my hand when a proof of her new novel was offered. Nothing Belongs to You is about a young woman, recently widowed, who buried her traumatic past when she married the doctor who helped save […]

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The Sky Above the Roof by Nathacha Appanah (transl. Geoffrey Strachan): ‘I’m nothing now but a boy from the shadows’

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If you know more about French poetry than I do which, frankly, would not be difficult, you may well recognise the title of Nathacha Appanah’s The Sky Above the Roof as a reference to Paul Verlaine’s Le Ciel, written when he was in prison. Fortunately, Geoffrey Strachan’s translator’s note helped me out, setting the tone

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