The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes
$25.49
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
6 April 2027
Summary
From one of Moldova’s most celebrated writers, The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes is a complex coming-of-age story unravelling the fragile, complicated, redemptive relationship between a mother and her son.
‘A beautiful novel’ New York Times
‘What a voice, what a story. I absolutely loved this. Funny and moving, tragic and hilarious’ Claire Fuller
Aleksy still remembers the last summer he spent with his mother in Northern France. At eighteen, eager to fly the nest and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781809923134 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1809923131 |
| Author: | Tatiana Tîbuleac, Monica Cure |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Hutchinson Heinemann |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 6 April 2027 |
| Weight: | 143g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Tatiana Tîbuleac
Tatiana Țîbuleac is the award-winning Moldovan-Romanian author of The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes and The Glass Garden. Born in Chișinău, Moldova, she began her career as a journalist, working in print media and as a reporter and news anchor for PRO TV Chișinău, Moldova’s leading independent TV station. She also worked in Moldova for UNICEF before leaving for Paris, where she now lives. Her debut as a writer came in 2014 with a collection of short stories, followed by two novels that received multiple awards, including the 2019 European Union Prize for Literature for The Glass Garden. Her books have been translated into 17 languages.
Monica Cure is a Romanian-American writer, literary translator, and dialogue specialist currently based in Bucharest. She is a two-time Fulbright grantee and has a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Southern California. Her poems and poetry translations have appeared in journals internationally, and she is the author of the book Picturing the Postcard: A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century. She won the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for her translation of Liliana Corobca’s novel The Censor’s Notebook.
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