The Other Girl by Annie Ernaux Brian Dillon Maisara Baroud

Maisara Baroud

brings together leading authorities on Wylie’s work and a host of her unmistakable imagery

A savagely funny novel that disdains literary and moral conventions

Jon Fosse’s first novel since he received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Other Girl by Annie Ernaux Brian Dillon Maisara BaroudTranslated by Alison L. Strayer One Sunday in Yvetot, August 1950. Annie is playing outside in the sun. Her mother steps out of the grocery to chat with a customer, a few metres from her. The two womens conversation is perfectly audible; its scraps become etched forever in Annies memory. Before she was born, her parents had another daughter. She died at the age of six from diphtheria. Annie will never hear another word from her parents about this