Nina Bouraoui's new novel traces violence through a tennis player's obsessive summer
In « Championne », the writer returns to a spiral-shaped style to follow a young player battling guilt in the summer of 1979, according to Le Monde.
Nina Bouraoui's latest novel, « Championne », centers on a young tennis player during the summer of 1979 who repeatedly strikes a ball against a wall, according to Le Monde. The repetitive gesture becomes a way for the character to work through a guilt that overwhelms her, the newspaper reports.
Le Monde describes Bouraoui's approach as a "spiralaire" style of writing, one built to circle back on itself as it seeks to understand how violence spreads and takes hold. The novel, per the paper, uses the athlete's solitary practice as a lens for that contagion.
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