Your Father's Room

Your Father's Room
Author Michel Déon
Original title La chambre de ton père
Country France
Language French
Publisher Éditions Gallimard
Publication date
5 February 2004
Published in English
1 June 2017
Pages 144

Your Father's Room (French: La chambre de ton père) is a 2004 novel by the French writer Michel Déon. It is set in Paris and Monaco in the 1920s and follows a young boy, Édouard, called Teddy. The book is a fictionalised autobiography based on Déon's childhood.[1]

Publication

The book was published in France on 5 February 2004 through éditions Gallimard.[2] An English translation is set to be published through Gallic Books on 1 June 2017 in the United Kingdom and 13 June 2017 in the United States.[3]

Reception

Yasmina Reza of Le Figaro called the book "one of the most beautiful stories about grief that you can read".[4]

References

  1. Marlowe, Lara (2010). The Things I've Seen. ISBN 978-1-909718-09-8.
  2. "La chambre de ton père" (in French). Éditions Gallimard. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
  3. "Your Father's Room". Belgravia Books. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
  4. Reza, Yasmina (2007-10-15). "Le sourire douloureux proche du rire". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 2016-09-24. l'un des plus beaux récits de chagrin qu'on puisse lire

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