Colette

Aftonstjärnan [Bok / Inbunden]

Cheri: spoiled, petulant, beautiful, aged twenty-five. Lea: magnificent, brilliant, remorseless, aged forty-nine. They are in love, but their relationship exists beyond the bounds of social acceptability and must one day come to an end, no matter the cost.<br/><br/>A <i>succ</i><i>es de scandale</i> on publication for its depiction of transgressive love, Colette's celebrated novella is also a profound and compelling exploration of the passage of time, the body and ageing, mirrors, self-perception, self-knowledge and the tragedy of mortality.

<i>'Fine teeth, my girl. With teeth like that I'd have gobbled up Paris and the rest of the world.'</i><br/><br/>Gigi, a teenage girl in <i>fin-de-siecle </i>Paris, is being groomed by her family to become a high-class courtesan, just like her aunt and grandmother before her. But despite their best efforts, their timid protegee may have other ideas for her future...<br/><br/>Colette's famous novella is a sly and delicate depiction of exploitation and resistance, and is paired here with the wonderful short story 'The Cat'.