Set in present-day Paris, Hunting and Gathering introduces us to Camille, a talented artist with a mysterious past. Camille weighs just forty-eight kilos and seems on a mission to starve herself into invisibility. Suffering exhaustion and severely undernourished she is rescued from her freezing attic room [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Review: Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda
Posted in Books, Contemporary fiction, Gavalda, Anna, REVIEWS on July 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Card-carrying member
Posted in Books, EDITORIAL on July 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I still remember the day I became a member of the public library in my home town. I can vividly see my mother and I, aged 6, standing at the sparkling new loans desk on opening day as the librarian processed my library card. My very own library card! With a barcode and its own [...]

