Charlotte

Name: Charlotte
Brand: Canongate Books
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English

By (author): David Foenkinos

Translated by: Sam Taylor

Charlotte Salomon is born into a family stricken by suicide and a country at war. But there is something exceptional about her - she has a gift, a talent for painting. And she has a great love, for a brilliant, eccentric musician. But just as she is coming into her own as an artist, death is coming to control her country. The Nazis have come to power and, as a Jew in Berlin, Charlotte's life is narrowing, and she knows every second is precious.

Inspiring, unflinching, terrible and hopeful, Charlotte is the heartbreaking true story of a life filled with curiosity, animated by genius and cut short by hatred.

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Product Details

Weight: 154g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 04 Jan 2018
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781782117964

About David Foenkinos

David Foenkinos is an award-winning French novelist and screenwriter. Charlotte inspired by the life of Charlotte Salomon won the Prix Renaudot and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens; it has sold more than half a million copies in France and been translated into nineteen languages.Sam Taylor previously translated HHhH by Laurent Binet and is the author of the novels The Island at the End of the World The Amnesiac and The Republic of Trees. He lives in France and the United States.Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin 1917. Unknown in her lifetime she was one of Germany's great modern artists. Her greatest achievement was Life? or Theatre? A Song-play - an autobiographical series of 769 works which she painted over two years in the South of France while in hiding from the Nazis. It has gone on to inspire films plays and an opera. Salomon died in Auschwitz in 1943 gassed along with her unborn child shortly after her arrival.