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Un secret sans importance
Agnes Desarthe

Editions de l'Olivier, 1996

Cinq Photos De MA Femme
Agnes Desarthe

Editions du Seuil, 2000

Five Photos of My Wife
Agnes Desarthe

Flamingo, 2001

At 80, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. He decides to have his wife's portrait painted from his favourite photographs of her and picks five arbritary phone numbers under "artists". The story follows Max's comical and moving encounters with the artists.

Good Intentions
Agnes Desarthe

Flamingo, 2002

With her husband Julien away on business much of the time, and now a second child on the way, Sonia finds herself drawn into the darker corners of life in her block. She finds herself sucked speedily into the maelstrom of two neighbours' sordid lethargy and ordinary cruelty.

Chez Moi

6 reviews
Agnes Desarthe

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008

Make yourself at home in Chez Moi
Agnes Desarthe's Chez Moi is a classic novel in the style of Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies and Chocolat that revels in the sensual and emotional power of truly great food. Its narrator, Myriam, is a talented cook with a forged resume and a past tainted with disaster. At 43, Myriam feels that her life (including a failed attempt ...