Charlotte - Softcover

A searing portrait of a brilliant artist.

A sensitive and deeply moving novel.

I am deeply, deeply affected by this sad, beautiful, indignant, wrenching, important book . . . Stunning.--Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent

Foenkinos's paean of Charlotte Salomon's life . . . is a tour de force. Every important detail and much more of this supreme artist's life--'a hierarchy of horror'--is recorded lovingly, passionately, obsessively, and lyrically.

Within this crystalline form pulses every shade of emotion, from elation and amusement to longing and sorrow . . . exquisitely empathetic and stunningly tragic.

For fans of Anne Frank, this is indeed a must-read novel . . . Beautifully told.

David Foenkinos is a screenwriter and the author of fourteen novels translated into forty languages, including La Delicatesse, Les Souvenirs, and Je Vais Mieux. In 2011, with his brother, he adapted his book La Delicatesse for the film Delicacy, starring Audrey Tautou and Francois Damiens.