La Femme de Gilles - Hardcover

[A] novella about a devastating love triangle, finally translated into English. Elle
No book this year made me feel as hopeful for the future as this one, so clearly did it reveal women's past patriarchal oppression and the distance we have come over the course of the last few decades. Read it and rage and then do something. Kristin Iversen, Nylon
A lyrical but dark exploration of wifely devotion. Flavorwire
The story of a tragic love triangle that will haunt the reader long after the last page. The Missourian
Quietly tragic...Though Bourdouxhe doesn t rescue this character she s created for us, she gave the women of her time one portrait of female suffering, made them less alone... Los Angeles Review of Books
Nuanced...[La Femme de Gilles] is incredibly successful for its fierce skill at what we might now call Ferrante-esque immersion in the interiority of its female protagonist...Timely. 3: AM
"This 1937 novel...established Bourdouxhe as an early, essential feminist author...A heartrending study of the compromises a woman is willing to make to preserve her marriage." Publishers Weekly (starred)"

Madeleine Bourdouxhe was born in Belgium in 1906. Her first novel, La Femme de Gilles, was published in 1937, but the outbreak of World War II interrupted her writing career, and her second book, A la recherche de Marie wasn't published until 1943. A volume of shorts stories, A Nail, a Rose, first appeared in English in 1989, followed by translations of La Femme de Gilles and A la recherche de Marie. Bourdouxhe died in 1996.