Jean-Baptiste Andrea: Love Lost and Found

Recipient of France's most prestigious literary award, Jean-Baptiste Andrea's Watching Over Her is one of the best selling Prix Goncourt winners in the prize's 121-year history and is now being adapted for film. This sweeping novel charts a tumultuous love story between an impoverished sculptor and wealthy heiress set against the rise of fascism in Italy. Today, he'll discuss the inspiration for this engrossing yet profound 'story of love, friendship, and revenge' with Nicole Abadee.

Categories: Fiction, Translated

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