After a thirty-year absence, Clémence returns to the remote mountain where she and her twin sister Lucie were born and where Lucie still lives.
Then the siren goes off, the dreaded warning that the glacier above their village is about to crack, and soon destroy everything in its path.
Lucie is desperate to evacuate, along with the rest of the villagers, but Clémence insists they stay. She says she’s on the run—no one must know she’s come back.
The two women are trapped. One terrified, one strangely calm, they shelter together beneath the glacier, surviving on dwindling supplies.
As catastrophe looms over them, the sisters’ lifelong conflicts return. But which one is telling the truth about their past?
My Sister is a novel about siblings who fear and love each other.
In this spine-chilling novel, Emmanuelle Salasc drills deep into our relationship with nature—and with those closest to us.
Prize-winning author Emmanuelle Salasc (formerly Pagano) was born in 1969 and lives in south-east France. She has written fifteen novels. One Day I’ll 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.
Penny Hueston’s translations from French include novels by Emmanuelle Pagano (One Day I’ll Tell You Everything), Patrick Modiano (Little Jewel), Sarah Cohen-Scali (Max) and Raphaël Jerusalmy (Evacuation). She has translated seven books by Marie Darrieussecq—All the Way, Men, Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Our Life in the Forest, The Baby, Crossed Lines and Sleepless. She has been shortlisted for the JQ-Wingate Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, twice for the Scott Moncrief Prize, and twice for the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize. She was the winner of the 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation.
Genre: Science Fiction
Then the siren goes off, the dreaded warning that the glacier above their village is about to crack, and soon destroy everything in its path.
Lucie is desperate to evacuate, along with the rest of the villagers, but Clémence insists they stay. She says she’s on the run—no one must know she’s come back.
The two women are trapped. One terrified, one strangely calm, they shelter together beneath the glacier, surviving on dwindling supplies.
As catastrophe looms over them, the sisters’ lifelong conflicts return. But which one is telling the truth about their past?
My Sister is a novel about siblings who fear and love each other.
In this spine-chilling novel, Emmanuelle Salasc drills deep into our relationship with nature—and with those closest to us.
Prize-winning author Emmanuelle Salasc (formerly Pagano) was born in 1969 and lives in south-east France. She has written fifteen novels. One Day I’ll 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.
Penny Hueston’s translations from French include novels by Emmanuelle Pagano (One Day I’ll Tell You Everything), Patrick Modiano (Little Jewel), Sarah Cohen-Scali (Max) and Raphaël Jerusalmy (Evacuation). She has translated seven books by Marie Darrieussecq—All the Way, Men, Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Our Life in the Forest, The Baby, Crossed Lines and Sleepless. She has been shortlisted for the JQ-Wingate Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, twice for the Scott Moncrief Prize, and twice for the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize. She was the winner of the 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation.
Genre: Science Fiction
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