A Romanian Novelist's Portrait of Ordinary Exile
In "Camping," Lavinia Braniste follows an émigrée through the small disorientations of a life abroad, a rentrée title praised by En attendant Nadeau.
The Romanian novelist Lavinia Braniste has published "Camping," a novel centered on an ordinary émigrée and the quiet disarray of displacement, according to En attendant Nadeau. The book is part of this year's rentrée littéraire.
En attendant Nadeau describes the novel as conveying a fundamental wandering, or errance, that runs through the protagonist's experience of emigration. The review does not detail plot specifics beyond this framing, focusing instead on the book's rendering of a life lived slightly out of place.
No publisher, translator or page count is given in the available material, nor is it specified whether "Camping" was written in Romanian and translated into French or composed directly in French. Readers looking for the book this season will need to consult booksellers for those details.
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