PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Cloe Mehdi was born in 1992. She started writing in college to make the time pass faster. There followed Monstres en cavale, her first novel, which received the 2014 Beaune prize. Nothing Is Lost was awarded the 2016 Polar Student prize, the 2017 Dora Suarez prize, the 2017 Mystere de la critique prize, the Blues & Polar prize, the Thousand and One Black Leaves prize. Award-winning translator Howard Curtis has worked on more than sixty books from French, Italian and Spanish. Among his recent translations for Europa are works by Jean-Claude Izzo and Santiago Gamboa.
"'A sublime noir novel. Perfectly mastered writing, serving magnificent characters. A real revelation. Don't miss it' - RTL '[Cloe Mehdi] showcases a brutal talent, shocking her reader with a harsh and uncompromising narrative style.' - Culture Chronique 'Poignant, disturbing, sensitive, chilling"", a novel Edvard Munch could have written had he not been a painter.' - Le Rayon Polar"
