Red Sofa (classic Foreign Novella)
About This Novel
This book includes two novellas "The Red Sofa" and "Second Hand" by the contemporary French writer Michel Lesbaud. "The Red Sofa" was shortlisted for the 2007 Goncourt Literary Prize and is her tenth novel. The narrator, Anna, takes a train to Russia to find her lover from more than twenty years ago, because he traveled to Siberia a few months ago, and she has not received letters from him for several weeks. She is worried and curious, and wants to see what happened to him; "Second Hand" tells the story of a woman who looked at houses everywhere but never bought one. This was the thirtieth house she looked at. After her beloved father passed away, all that was left to her were some house drawings and a watch. The ticking sound of the watch's second hand accompanied her for many years. Visiting one house after another and listening to the ticking of the second hand, she slowly regained the shadow of her father in her childhood and her inner peace.
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