Charlotte: A Novel - Softcover

“A huge best seller in France and now translated into 20 languages, Charlotte breaks the mold of traditional biography by presenting a tragic but moving story in a fictional free verse, each sentence embodying a paragraph in an astute, sometimes humorous and often startling mixture of fact and passion. Charlotte is as much a tribute to genius unfulfilled as the author’s mesmerizing search to connect with the subject’s artistic soul. . . . Although Charlotte is a haunting work, fraught with beautiful and sensitive imagery, it issomething more: a testament to creative artistic expression and, in telling the life of the artist, a tribute to the will to survive.”
- Hadassah Magazine

“Foenkinos's paean of Charlotte Salomon's life . . . is a tour de force. Every important detail and much more of this supreme artist's life―'a hierarchy of horror'―is recorded lovingly, passionately, obsessively, and lyrically.”
- The Jewish Chronicle

“I am deeply, deeply affected by this sad, beautiful, indignant, wrenching, important book . . . Stunning.”
- Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent

“Within this crystalline form pulses every shade of emotion, from elation and amusement to longing and sorrow . . . exquisitely empathetic and stunningly tragic.”
- Booklist, starred review

“For fans of Anne Frank, this is indeed a must-read novel . . . Beautifully told.”
- San Francisco Book Review

“A searing portrait of a brilliant artist.”
- Kirkus

“A sensitive and deeply moving novel.”
- Paris Match