For Rouenna
$18.39
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2026
Summary
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation, the story of a woman’s experiences of war and an unusual friendship.
‘Resonant and provocative’ VOGUE
‘One of my favourite authors’ NATALIE PORTMAN
I did not remember a Rouenna Zycinski. I was sure I had never known her. But many years ago, according to her letter, we had been neighbors in the same public housing project, on Staten Island.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349021928 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349021929 |
| Author: | Sigrid Nunez |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
For Rouenna is about everything: war and remembrance, how we invent our ‘selves’ and why; why we kill ourselves-or live. I was dazzled by this book * Washington Post *Nunez fashions the Vietnam novel we didn’t know we were missing * New York Daily News *Beautifully written … mesmerizing … enthralling * O, the Oprah Magazine *Her spare voice … gives even the simplest descriptions of place and weather unsettling force and beauty * Village Voice *An entirely different kind of war novel…Nunez’s Vietnam is assembled with a long lens and crafted in her spare, gorgeous prose….What emerges is something that feels like truth * San Francsico Chronicle *Resonant and provocative * Vogue *One of the best American novels I’ve read in a long time …[an] artful triptych of a novel * Women’s Review of Books *A stellar addition to-and keen twist on-a genre that up until now has been dominated by men * Time Out New York *
About The Author
Sigrid Nunez
Sigrid Nunez has published nine novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, The Friend, What Are You Going Through, and, most recently, The Vulnerables. Nunez is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. The Friend, a New York Times bestseller, won the 2018 National Book Award and was a finalist for the the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. The Friend has been adapted for film by directors David Siegel and Scott McGehee (2024). What Are You Going Through has been adapted for a film directed by Pedro Almodovar, The Room Next Door (2024). Her work has been published in more than thirty five countries.
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