Publisher's Synopsis
<p><b><h3>'A revelation' KATY HESSEL</h3></b><br><b><h3>'Brilliant' <i>OBSERVER</i></h3></b><br><br>Over one night, alone in the Punta della Dogana Museum in Venice, Leïla Slimani grapples with the self as it is revealed in solitude. In a place of old and new, she confronts her past and her present, through her life as a Moroccan woman, as a writer, and as a daughter. Surrounded by art, she explores what it means to behold and clasp beauty; enveloped by night, she confronts the meaning of life and death.<br><br><b>Translated from the French by Sam Taylor</b></p>
