Her Father's Daughter (11 page)
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Authors: Marie Sizun
AUTHOR
Marie Sizun is a prize-winning French author. She was born in 1940 and has taught literature in Paris, Germany and Belgium. She now lives in Paris. Marie Sizun has published seven novels and a memoir. She wrote her first novel,
Her Father's Daughter,
at the age of 65. The book was long-listed for the Prix Femina.
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TRANSLATOR
Adriana Hunter has translated over 50 books from French, including works by Agnès Desarthe, Véronique Ovaldé and Hervé Le Tellier. She has translated three previous titles for Peirene:
Beside the Sea
by Véronique Olmi, for which she won the 2011 Scott Moncrieff Prize,
Under the Tripoli Sky
by Kamal Ben Hameda and
Reader for Hire
by Raymond Jean. Adriana has been short-listed twice for the
Independent
Foreign Fiction Prize.
First published in Great Britain in 2016 by
Peirene Press Ltd
17 Cheverton Road
London N19 3BB
www.peirenepress.com
First published under the original French-language title
Le Père de la petite
in 2005 by Ãditions Arléa, Paris
Copyright © Ãditions Arléa, 2005
This translation © Adriana Hunter, 2016
Marie Sizun asserts her moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not be resold, lent, hired out or otherwise circulated without the express prior consent of the publisher.
ISBN 978â1â908670â28â1
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author's imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
Designed by Sacha Davison Lunt
Photographic image by Fabrice Strippoli/Millennium Images, UK
Typeset by Tetragon, London
Printed and bound by T J International, Padstow, Cornwall
This book is supported by the Institut français (Royaume-Uni) as part of the Burgess programme (
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