Charlotte - Prix Renaudot 2014 (French Edition) - Softcover

David Foenkinos is a screenwriter and the author of fourteen novels translated into forty languages, including La Délicatesse, Les Souvenirs, and Je Vais Mieux. In 2011, with his brother, he adapted his book La Délicatesse for the film Delicacy, starring Audrey Tautou and François Damiens.

“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