Marianne Apostolides

Elle nage

She Swims

April 7, 2022
Novel
136 pages
128 × 190 mm
16 €
9782924519196
978-2-9245-1919-6

“Foreign literature” collection

																Marianne Apostolides, Elle nage
																Marianne Apostolides, Elle nage

In Loutra, Kat dives into her memories. She swims: thirty-nine lengths—one for each year of her life. Defying the viscosity of the water, she slides into her past: her childhood, her daughter, her fault. One, two, three, breathe. Her marriage is in the water. If only she can pinpoint the precise moment when everything sank, she will know what to do. One, two, three, breathe. By the pool, Melina, her fourteen-year-old daughter, flirts with Achille, a handsome young Greek.

Marianne Apostolides has written a novel that is entirely punctuated by the movements of swimming, where the heritage of ancient Greece blossoms in the psyche of a modern woman.

The author

Born in the suburbs of New York, Marianne Apostolides lives in Toronto. Her writing blends the intimate with the fictional, reconciling the tensions between genres and styles, exploring her personal history in light of her literary questionings.

April 7, 2022
Novel
136 pages
128 × 190 mm
16 €
9782924519196
978-2-9245-1919-6

“Foreign literature” collection