"Anna Gavalda has been hailed as an author "graced with the Gallic virtues of dry wit and almost involuntary elegance" (Vogue). Now, the prize-winning author of I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere returns with a novel of an abandoned wife, and the profound relationship that unfolds between her and her father-in-law."

Someone I Loved by Anna Gavalda
Genres: Fiction

Also by this author: Hunting and Gathering

 

This first novel of Anna Gavalda published in 2002 is an easy read, but at the same time it’s a powerful book about love and the choices we make. The book was written as a conversation between Chloe, a women in her late 30s with two daughters, recently abandoned by her husband and Pierre, her father-in-law, a 65 year old man rather dull and distant.

I read this book in Romanian and I do recommend it to people who found and/or still believe in the power of love 🙂

“So love is just bullshit. That’s it? It never works out?”
“Of course it works out. But you have to fight..”
“Fight how?”
“Every day you have to fight a bit. A little bit each day, with the courage to be yourself, to decide just to be happy.”