Writer and visual artist, Claudie Hunzinger is the author of numerous books, including, at Grasset, They lived in hope (2010), Survival (2012), The language of birds (2014), the incandescent (2016) and The Great Deer (2019) which won the December 2019 prize. At the age of 82, she received the Femina prize for her new novel A dog at my table.
” One evening, a young dog, dragging a dirty story with her broken chain, appears at the door of an old couple. : Sophie, novelist, who loves nature and walks in the forest and her companion Grieg, already out of the world, sleeping during the day and reading at night, surviving thanks to literature.
Where does this wounded beast come from ? What has she been through ? Are we in pursuit ?
Its irruption will transform the old age of the world, that of a couple, that of a woman, into an ode to life, showing us that another path is possible.
A dog at my table connects the rebellious feminine and the ransacked nature : if our disturbing time seems to threaten our future and that of books, the poets of times of distress save what we have left of humanity. » (Presentation of Grasset editions)