WATCH US DANCE
by Leïla Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor
(Faber, $36.99)
"It is a rare pleasure when a novel opens up an entire world to the reader.
French Moroccan Leïla Slimani shot to fame with her second novel, Chanson Douce(Lullaby), inspired by the murder of two small children in New York by their nanny. This was Slimani’s first novel to be translated into English, and despite its grim subject, won the Prix Goncourt and was translated into 18 languages. This is her fifth work, excellently translated again by the British writer Sam Taylor.
