Our Book of the Week this week is Noémi Lefebvre's astounding novel Blue Self-Portrait, a single virtuoso looping interior monologue of a narrator caught up in regrets about her social failings and ambivalent impulses.

>> Read Thomas's review. 

>> Read an extract. 

>> Hear an extract read. 

>> The book is short-listed for the 2018 Republic of Consciousness Prize. 

>> A review by Eimear McBride in The Guardian. 

>> "An intelligent woman is supposed to raise herself above these anxieties." 

>> Arnold Schoenberg's Blue Self-Portrait. 

>> The book is published by the exemplary Les Fugitives, a press that  publishes only books written by award-winning, female, francophone writers who have previously not been translated into English. Visit their website. 

>> Other titles from Les Fugitives at VOLUME:
Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger (read Thomas's review)
Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi (read Thomas's review)
Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel (just arrived!)