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Before I Forget

Anne Pauly
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  • ISBN 9781916806160
  • Dimensions: 125 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Sep 2026
  • Publisher: Peirene Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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When Anne's father dies, she is left grieving a contradiction. Jean-Pierre was a man of many faces: the self-taught philosopher born into poverty; the Buddhist who marked his favourite haikus with maple leaves; the old romantic who ends every evening kissing a pixelated portrait of his late wife; and the violent bully, whose alcoholism marks his family's life in terrible ways.

While sorting through his belongings and making funeral preparations, Anne tries to come to terms with who and what she's lost, while navigating others' expectations of mourning and her brother's fits of explosive rage. As she reaches into their shared past, the similarities between a father and a daughter who has spent so much of her adulthood running away from her childhood become impossible to ignore.

Told with a quick wit and deep tenderness, Before I Forget is a tragicomic portrait of loss and a novel for anyone who's ever loved a so-called monster.
About Anne Pauly
Anne Pauly is a writer working and living in Paris. Her first book, Avant que j'oublie, was awarded the 2020 Prix du Livre Inter and Prix Robert Walser, and was shortlisted for the Prix Femina, Prix Wepler, and Prix Goncourt. Anne has since written short stories for several reviews, a televised series, and a play. She is currently finishing a second novel, while working on a play for the Theatre du Nord along with seven other writers, including Virginie Despentes, Paul B. Preciado, and Julien Delmaire.

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