The Swiss List
Efina
Noelle Revaz, David Ball, Nicole Ball
List price £16.00
Product Details
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9780857421708
- Published:
- 07 Mar 2014
- Publisher:
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Dimensions:
- 256 pages - 21 x 14 x 3mm
- Availability:
- Available
- Series:
- The Swiss List
Categories:
T., an acclaimed but aging actor, and Efina, a passionate theatergoer, are engaged in an obsessive love affair that careens from attraction to repulsion. They compulsively write letters - often to express their intense dislike of one another - which are sent or unsent, answered or unanswered. They meet, they break up, they marry, and they get divorced. They neither can live with nor without one another, and this impossible state of affairs lasts all their lives. In between, there are other men and many other women, but throughout, the magic of the theater and the art of make-believe endure. Efina is a tumultuous novel about art, love, disdain, and above all - obsession - told in a quirky, highly original style. It presents an unapologetically dysfunctional yet honest relationship, detailing outrageous thoughts and absurd behaviors in clear and precise prose. What could have been a sad tale of failed love is delightfully transformed by Noelle Revaz into a masterpiece of dark humor.
T, an acclaimed but aging actor, and Efina, a passionate theatergoer, are engaged in an obsessive love affair that careens from attraction to repulsion. They meet, they break up, they marry, and they get divorced. They neither can live with nor without one another, and this impossible state of affairs lasts all their lives.
Noelle Revaz's first novel, With the Animals, was highly acclaimed. She currently lives in Lausanne. David and Nicole Ball have translated nine books from French, including Abdourahman A. Waberi's Passage of Tears, also published by Seagull Books.