An “oddball fairy tale” (The New York Times)—shortlisted for one of France’s highest literary prizes—a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family, who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways. A young boy lives with his madcap parents, Louise and George, and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment, where the unopened mail rises in a tower by the door and his parents dance each night to Nina Simone’s mellifluous classic “Mister Bojangles.” As his mother, mesmerizing and unpredictable, descends deeper into her own mind, it is up to the boy and his father to keep her safe—and, when that fails, happy. Fleeing Paris for a country home in Spain, they come to understand that some of the most radiant people bear the heaviest burdens. Told from the perspective of a young boy who idolizes his parents—and from George’s journals, detailing his epic love story with his wife—Waiting for Bojangles is a “lighthearted and yet sorrowful tale” (San Francisco Chronicle) that will stay with you long after the final page.

Waiting for Bojangles

Literature & Fiction

BOURDEAUT, Olivier

Humor & Satire

Simon&Schuster

An “oddball fairy tale” (The New York Times)—shortlisted for one of France’s highest literary prizes—a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family, who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways.\nA young boy lives with his madcap parents, Louise and George, and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment, where the unopened mail rises in a tower by the door and his parents dance each night to Nina Simone’s mellifluous classic “Mister Bojangles.” As his mother, mesmerizing and unpredictable, descends deeper into her own mind, it is up to the boy and his father to keep her safe—and, when that fails, happy. Fleeing Paris for a country home in Spain, they come to understand that some of the most radiant people bear the heaviest burdens.\nTold from the perspective of a young boy who idolizes his parents—and from George’s journals, detailing his epic love story with his wife—Waiting for Bojangles is a “lighthearted and yet sorrowful tale” (San Francisco Chronicle) that will stay with you long after the final page.

En attendant Bojangles

Contemporary

Фоліо

Florida

Genre Fiction

PACTUM SALIS (French Edition)

Literary

FINITUDE

Warten auf Bojangles

Piper Verlag GmbH

Esperant a mister Bojangles

Salamandra

Ante la mirada maravillada de su hijo, una pareja embriagada de amor baila al son de «Mr. Bojangles», de Nina Simone. Su amor es magico, vertiginoso, una fiesta perpetua, y su hogar, un espacio donde solo caben el placer, la fantasia y la amistad. Georges, el hijo, vive en un universo lleno de poesia, de quimeras, de momentos sorprendentes en que la madre interpreta su extravagante papel con la seguridad del ilusionista mas convincente. Pero poco a poco, de manera casi imperceptible, empieza a entreverse que la extravagancia roza la locura y la alegria domestica se asienta sobre un precario sentido de la realidad. / A couple drunk in love dance to the tune of Nina Simone s Mr. Bojangles , before the wondrous eyes of their son. Their love is magic. Nonetheless, slowly, almost unperceptively, the cracks where extravagance meets madness show, and domestic bliss sits atop a precarious sense of reality.

Esperando a mister Bojangles (Spanish Edition)

Esperando a mister Bojangles / Waiting for Mr. Bojangles (Spanish Edition)

Salamandra Bolsillo

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