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Short-listed for the Goldsmiths Prize
Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

A wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment: a historical novel like no other.

It's the eighteenth century, and Celine is in trouble. Her husband is mostly absent. Her parents are elsewhere. And meanwhile men are inventing stories about herabout her affairs, her sexuality, her orgies and addictions. All these stories are lies, but the public loves them and spreads them like a virus. Celine can only watch as her name becomes a symbol for everything rotten in society.

This is a world of decadence and saturation, of lavish parties and private salons, of tulle and satin and sex and violence. It's also one ruled by menhigh on colonial genocide, natural destruction, crimes against women, and, above all, language. To survive, Celine and her friends must band together in

The Future Future

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 17 October 2023
      ISBN-13 9780374607616
      978-0374607616
      ISBN-10 0374607613

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Short-listed for the Goldsmiths Prize
      Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

      A wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment: a historical novel like no other.

      It's the eighteenth century, and Celine is in trouble. Her husband is mostly absent. Her parents are elsewhere. And meanwhile men are inventing stories about herabout her affairs, her sexuality, her orgies and addictions. All these stories are lies, but the public loves them and spreads them like a virus. Celine can only watch as her name becomes a symbol for everything rotten in society.

      This is a world of decadence and saturation, of lavish parties and private salons, of tulle and satin and sex and violence. It's also one ruled by menhigh on colonial genocide, natural destruction, crimes against women, and, above all, language. To survive, Celine and her friends must band together in

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