Lili is Crying

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Lili is Crying, Hlne Bessette's debut novel, explores the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother Charlotte. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette's stripped-back prose evokes at once the pain of thwarted love - of desire run cold - and the promise of renewal. Lauded by critics on its initial publication in 1953 for its boundary-pushing style,Lili is Cryingmarked the beginning of a singular writing career. Bessette's work is translated into English for the first time here by Windham-Campbell Prize-winning author and translator Kate Briggs.

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'AT LAST, SOMETHING NEW.'

- Raymond Queneau, author ofZazie in the Metro

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'Living literature, for me, in France today - it's Helene Bessette.'

- Marguerite Duras

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Author Bio

Hlne Bessette (1918-2000) published thirteen novels with Gallimard between 1953 and 1973, won the Cazes prize in 1954 and was twice in the running for the Goncourt prize and the Mdicis prize.