Lili Is Crying

Lili is Crying, Hélene Bessette`s debut novel, explores the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother Charlotte. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette`s stripped-back prose evokes at once the pain of thwarted love - of desire run cold - and the promise of renewal. Lauded by critics on its initial publication in 1953 for its boundary-pushing style, unusual economy of expression, strange humour and sheer vivacity, Lili is Crying announces Bessette`s singular take on the `poetic novel`. This edition marks the very first translation of Bessette`s work into English, by Windham-Campbell Prize-winning author and translator Kate Briggs.