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by Anna Gavalda; Tina Kover (Translator)

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From the publisher

Two lost young Parisians discover new paths for their lives in this charming pair of novellas by the international-bestselling author of Billie.

Twenty-four-year-old Mathilde has abandoned her studies in art history for a job leaving anonymous negative comments on websites. One day she loses her bag in a caf--a bag that happens to contain ten thousand Euros. When an unknown man returns it to her a week later, Mathilde becomes obsessed with the mysterious encounter
Twenty-six-year-old Yann works as a sales assistant in a home appliances store while he waits for better days to come. He wouldn't say he is unhappy. But sometimes, late at night, when he is crossing a bridge over the River Seine, he imagines jumping. One day he does a favor for one of his neighbors and is asked to stay for dinner as thanks. The following morning Yann throws caution to the wind and decides to change his life entirely.
These two novellas by bestselling author Anna Gavalda are among her most moving and inspiring. Life, Only Better is a touching, cleverly crafted book about choices and their consequences.

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  • Title Life, Only Better
  • Author Anna Gavalda; Tina Kover (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 210
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Europa Editions, New York, New York
  • Publication date 2015
  • ISBN 9781609452940 / 1609452941
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.83 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Topical: Friendship
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Interpersonal relations, Paris (France)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Anna Gavalda's first published work was the critically acclaimed collection of short stories I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere, which sold over half a million copies in her native France and was published in the US by Riverhead in 2003. She is also the author of Someone I Loved, Hunting and Gathering, made into a film starring Audrey Tautou and Daniel Auteuil, French Leave (Europa 2011), and Billie (Europa 2015). Gavalda lives in Paris.

Tina Kover's published works include the Modern Library translation of Georges by Alexandre Dumas pre, The Black City by George Sand (Carroll & Graf), and Maurice G. Dantec's Cosmos Incorporated and Grand Junction. In 2009 she received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for the translation of Manette Salomon by the Goncourt borthers.

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