Tom Is Dead

Description

Set in the Blue Mountains and in Sydney, Tom is Dead is a suspense novel about grief. The narrator's son has been dead for ten years; he was four and a half. For the first time since that day, she spends a few minutes without thinking of him. To stop herself from forgetting, she tries to write Tom's story, the story of his death. She writes about the first hours, the first days, and then about the hours and the days before. She strives to describe it all as precisely as possible. It's the details that will lead her and the reader to the truth.

Author description

Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in Bayonne, France. Her debut novel, "Pig Tales," was published in 34 countries and became the most popular first novel in France since the 1950s. "A Brief Stay with the Living" and "White" have also been translated into English.