My Sister

‘A creepy mix of cli-fi disaster fiction and psychological thriller…Salasc writes with enviable crispness, and she laces the central conflict with an exquisite sense of psychological cruelty and menace and mystery.’ * Age *
‘An excellently written psychological thriller laid upon a substrate of an eco-dystopia, where human and environmental elements are as dangerous as each other.’ * Good Reading *
‘With its sparse elegance, psychological acuity, and environmental resonance, My Sister is a novel of remarkable subtlety and power.’ * NZ Booklovers *
‘At once an ecological dystopia and a domestic drama, My Sister is an impressive psychological thriller…The reader is left in awe. This is an encounter with a major writer.’ * La Croix *
‘She might have changed her name (from Pagano to Salasc), but we recognise her work immediately: her meticulous curiosity about what connects human beings to nature…By aligning the dissection of toxic family relationships with a disturbing geo-political fable, My Sister offers fascinating food for thought.’ * Livres Hebdo *
‘There is a striking purity to Salasc’s writing; brilliance is a matter of course and accompanies a lively sensibility…The beauty of this novel derives from the promise of renewal. My Sister is an edgy dystopia, blazing with hope.’ * Télérama *
‘For Emmanuelle Salsac, writing is a form of resistance, a way of preventing the worst…A parallel develops between the possible flood from a glacier and the impulsiveness of the narrator’s twin sister, both of which must be prevented and contained. Of course, things are not that simple…’ * Diacritik *

Prize-winning author Emmanuelle Salasc (formerly Pagano) was born in 1969 and lives in south-east France. She has written fifteen novels.

One Day I’ll Tell You Everything, published by Text, won the European Prize for Literature and has been translated into more than fifteen languages. Faces on the Tip of My Tongue was longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She regularly collaborates with artists working in other disciplines.

Penny Hueston’s translations from French include novels by Emmanuelle Pagano (One Day I’ll Tell You Everything), Patrick Modiano (Little Jewel), Sarah Cohen-Scali (Max), and Raphael Jerusalmy (Evacuation). She has translated seven books by Marie Darrieussecq: All the Way, Men, Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Our Life in the Forest, The Baby, Crossed Lines, and Sleepless.

She has been shortlisted for the JQ-Wingate Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, twice for the Scott Moncrief Prize, and twice for the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize. She was the winner of the 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation.

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