There's a Monster behind the Door

Name: There's a Monster behind the Door
Author: Gaëlle Bélem
ISBN: 9781739842369

Gaëlle Bélem

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#7678 of 8,085 books · #2980 in Fiction

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize (2025).

In 1980s' Reunion, monsters lurk beneath the surface of vibrant island life, ready to pounce at the slightest disturbance. Here, the naive Dessaintes couple make a failing bid for happiness, soon growing jaded and bitter as the orange tree in their front yard. Even so, sprouting defiantly through the cracks of this postcolonial legacy of violence, poverty and intergenerational trauma, the Dessaintes' daughter shows an irrepressible zest for life. Amidst the chaos raging behind and beyond the door of her childhood home, our young narrator stubbornly resists her parents' refrain. Finding refuge in reading and determined to write her own story, she falls in love with words.

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