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Down with the Poor!

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By (author): Shumona Sinha

Translated by: Teresa Lavender Fagan

Over the course of a night in police custody, a young woman tries to understand the rage that led her to assault a refugee on the Paris metro. She too is a foreigner, now earning a living as an interpreter for asylum seekers in the outskirts of the city. Translating the stories of men and women who come from her country of birth, into the language of her country of citizenship, Sinha's narrator finds herself caught up in a tangle of lies and truths. Armed with an acerbic sense of humour she exposes prejudices on all sides. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 120 x 180mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Aug 2022
  • Publisher: Les Fugitives
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781838490461

About Shumona Sinha

Shumona Sinha was born and grew up in Calcutta West Bengal. In 1990 she won Bengal's Best Young Poet award. She started learning French at the age of 22 and moved to Paris a few years later. She has since been naturalised French. Her first novel Fenetre sur l'abime was published in 2008. Her award-winning second novel Assommons les pauvres ! was translated into German Arabic Italian and Hungarian and adapted for stage in Germany and Austria. Her third novel Calcutta (2014) received the Prix du rayonnement de la langue et de la litterature francaises and the Grand Prix du Roman of the Societe des gens de lettres. Her most recent novel Le testament russe was published in March 2020 by Editions Gallimard.

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