The Red Sofa

By: Michele Lesbre, David Ball (Translator), Nicole Ball (Translator)

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Hardcover | 24 March 2017 | Edition Number 1

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104 Pages

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21.18 x 13.49 x 1.4

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Now in paperback, The Red Sofa is a quiet French novella exploring love, memory, and the perspective that travel gives us on both.

In The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who left twenty years before. As the train moves across post-Soviet Russia and its devastated landscapes, Anne reflects on her past with Gyl and their patriotic struggles, as well as on the neighbor she has just left behind, Clemence Barrot.

Rocked by the train’s movements Anne is moved by her memory of Clemence, who is old and whose memory is failing, but who has not lost her taste for life and adventure. Ensconced on her red sofa at home, Clemence loves to tell Anne her life story, mourning lost loved ones and celebrating the lives of brave, rebellious women who went before her. Eventually, Anne’s train trip returns her home having not found Gyl, but having found something much more meaningful—herself.

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