A Sun for the Dying
Publishing Details
A Sun for the Dying
By (Author) Jean-Claude Izzo
Translated by Howard Curtis
Europa Editions
Europa Editions
1st September 2008
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
FIC
Physical Properties
272
Width 135mm, Height 210mm
Description
Rico has been banished to society's margins; he has neither a roof over his head nor a steady income on which to depend. When a friend and fellow clochard dies of exposure after a night spent in the Paris metro, Rico decides to flee the northern cold for his beloved south, for Marseilles and the Mediterranean. From the celebrated author of the Marseilles trilogy, this is both an affecting on-the-road novel and a tender exploration of love's power both to heal and to destroy.
Reviews
Praise for A Sun for the Dying
"Our last true romantic, Jean-Claude Izzo transmits warmth to his readers, as if granting them a mouthful of pure love. A Sun for the Dying is beautiful, like a black sun, tragic and desperate."
--Le Point (France)
"Jean-Claude Izzo knew how to recount stories of intense love found and lost, of the sea and the sun and their perfumes-above all the blue Mediterranean of Marseilles--of the lives of forsaken tramps who wander the streets begging 'please, can you spare a little sun.'"--La Repubblica (Italy)
Praise for Jean-Claude Izzo
"Izzo digs deep into what makes men weep."--Time Out New York
"Izzo writes candidly about European racial politics, and his characters brood intriguingly."
--Publishers Weekly
"What makes [Izzo's] work haunting is his extraordinary ability to convey the tastes and smells of Marseilles, and the way memory and obligation dog every step his hero takes."--The New Yorker
"Izzo's Marseilles is ravishing. Every street, cafe and house has it's own character."--Globe and Mail
Author Bio
Jean-Claude Izzo was born in Marseilles, France, in 1945. Best known for the Marseilles trilogy (Total Chaos,Chourmo,Solea), Izzo is also the author ofThe Lost Sailors,A Sun for the Dying,Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil, and one collection of short stories,Living Tires. He died in 2000 at the age of fifty-five. Award-winning translator Howard Curtis has worked on more than sixty books from French, Italian and Spanish. Among his recent translations for Europa are works by Jean-Claude Izzo and Santiago Gamboa.
