My Devotion

By Julia Kerninon

KEY SELLING POINTS

• Winner of the 2018 Prix littéraire Fénéon 
• A thoroughly modern meditation on love and commitment
• English Language debut
• A bestseller in France
• Author emerged from Poetry Slam scene in Nantes, France

TARGET READERSHIP

• Readers of literary fiction, French fiction, family drama, serious fiction focusing on female characters and themes relating specifically to women’s lives
• Readers of The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami, A Separation by Katie Kitamura, the novels of Meg Wolitzer and Jami Attenberg
• Women 25-45

• Language: English
• Publisher: Europa Editions
• Release date: Aug 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781609456269

Julia Kerninon

Julia Kerninon was born in 1987 and holds a Ph.D in American Literature. She has been compared to French New Wave filmmaker Éric Rohmer for her sense of style and feeling for dialogue, and to Alain Resnais for the artful structure of her narratives. But, most of all, her work stands out for its contagious joy, drive, exuberance. Her first novel, Buvard, has won the Prix Françoise Sagan, among many other awards. Kerninon’s second novel, Le dernier amour d’Attila Kiss, won the Prix de la Closerie des Lilas in 2016, and her latest novel, My Devotion, winner of the 2018 Fénéon Literary Prize, is published by Europa Editions on 20 August 2020. She lives in Nantes.