Chloé Delaume

Où le sang nous appelle

Where the Blood Calls Us

September 19, 2013
Essay
372 pages
140 × 200 mm
21 €
9782021084696
978-2-0210-8469-6
																Chloé Delaume, Où le sang nous appelle
																Chloé Delaume, Où le sang nous appelle

He is a journalist, she is a writer. She does not want children, he already has three: they will write a novel. Two hearts of stone share their landslides, and follow the calls of blood. Their summer 2012 will be spent in Lebanon, in Kobayat, near the Syrian border. He will accompany her to this Maronite village, in the hollow of the mountains, where she lived her first five years, where her father was born and buried, where her uncles, her aunts, the Abdallah clan survive. They will all be there except Uncle Georges. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, presumed leader of the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Forces, sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorist acts, incarcerated in France for twenty-eight years. All families have their secrets and their dramas. This one more than others

The author

Chloé Delaume was born in 1973. She has been writing in many forms and media since the late 1990s. She has written nearly thirty books as if they were experiments: novels, poetic fragments, plays, essays, self-fiction. She is fond of hybrid objects and the mixing of genres: a novel illustrated by a video game (Corpus Simsi), the hijacking of a board game (Certainement pas), fan fiction in which you are the hero (La nuit je suis Buffy Summers). But also diary of a home performance (J’habite dans la télévision), dystopia (Les sorcières de la République). If her first novel, Les mouflettes d’Atropos, was tinged with radical feminism, she later focused on the issue of sisterhood by publishing Mes bien chères sœurs and the collective work Sororité.
Winner of the Prix Décembre 2001 for Le cri du sablier, she was a resident at the Villa Médicis in 2010-2011 and won the Prix Médicis 2020 with Le cœur synthétique.

September 19, 2013
Essay
372 pages
140 × 200 mm
21 €
9782021084696
978-2-0210-8469-6