A Leopard-Skin Hat

Title: A Leopard-Skin Hat Author: Anne Serre ISBN: 9780811234511 Publisher: New Directions Published: 2023 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1667463 Publisher Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre's most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a "masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance," it is the story of an intense friendship between "the Narrator" and his close childhood friend, Fanny, who suffers from profound psychological disorders. A series of short scenes paints the portrait of a strong-willed and tormented young woman battling many demons, and of the narrator's loving and anguished attachment to her. Anne Serre poignantly depicts the bewildering back and forth between hope and despair involved in such a relationship, while playfully calling int