My Sister

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One summers day in 2056 in the mountains of southern France, a warning siren goes off: inside the belly of the receding glacier above the spa-centre village, a large pocket of water under pressure is about to give wayjust as it did 150 years ago, when hundreds of people died in the floods of debris and water.

A novel about fear, an ancestral, collective fear about environmental disaster, and the narrator Lucies fear about her twin sister Clmence, who has returned after a thirty-year absence.

Salasc intensifies the psychological suspense as she tracks the sisters relationship between the past and the present. Clmence claims she is on the run, but Lucie still doesnt know whether she can trust her sister.

The two women shelter together beneath the glacier, waiting for the worst, surviving on dwindling supplies, alone above the evacuated village. Does Clmences determination to control Lucie mean confronting the ultimate catastrophe

My Sister is a spine-chilling slow-burn story of sibling rivalry and climate change, in which the gifted novelist Emmanuelle Salasc offers us a profound examination of the future of our relationship with natureas well as with those close to us.

Author Bio

Prize-winning author Emmanuelle Salasc (formerly Pagano) was born in 1969 and lives in south-east France. She has written fifteen novels. One Day Ill Tell You Everything, published by Text, won the European Prize for Literature and has been translated into more than fifteen languages. Faces on the Tip of My Tongue was longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She regularly collaborates with artists working in other disciplines.