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Women's fiction

La parte del diavolo

(The Devil’s Cut)

Casa Editrice Longanesi&C., March 2016, pp.240

Three generations of women untangle a complex family story to bring to light a secret that could change the present completely…

French version available

Catherine, a quiet middle class woman, leaves Milano after finding out her husband has cheated on her yet again and moves to Paris with her daughter Luna to stay with her anti conformist eighty-six year old mother Christiane.

In Paris, Luna, who is writing a thesis on the teaching methods of Rudolph Steiner, discovers by chance that her great grandfather was a follower of Steiner’s. She therefore asks her grandmother to tell her more about their family. Christiane tells her a story that will bring to light complex and fascinating events, contradictory and painful memories, which will give a new significance to their past. The three women’s present life will be enlightened by these facts and will change because once the masks are off, the good people will become more worrying than the bad.

Casa Editrice Longanesi&C., March 2016, pp.240

  • “Emmanuelle de Villepin (…) stages the story of three generations and a sensitive relationship (…) by intercepting (…) a signal: perhaps it is inevitable that, because of our longer life expectancy and new generations of women who are ever more conscious of their role in the world, relationship issues that centuries of family novels had anchored in adolescent years, should now take place later on in life.”

    Maurizio Bono, La Repubblica

  • “Once again Emmanuelle de Villepin proves that she is a writer who can build a convincing and compelling plot.”

    L’Espresso

  • “Thanks to her writing that delves deep into emotions, Emmanuelle de Villepin tells an intense story of women who have attempted to fully live this mystery called love.”

    Fabio Gambaro, L'Espresso

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Emmanuelle De Villepin

Emmanuelle de Villepin was born in France and after studying in Geneva and New York moved to Milan where she has been living since 1988. Longanesi published her novels Tempo di Fuga (Time to Run Away, 2006), La ragazza che non voleva morire (The Girl Who Didn’t Want to Die, 2008, Premio Fenice 2009), La Vita che scorre (Life That Flows, 2013, Rapallo Carige Prize), La parte del diavolo (The Devil’s Cut, 2016) and Dall’altra riva (From the other Shore, 2020).

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