Chéri and The End of Chéri

Quotes

“This heartbreaking, astute pair of novels…are among the best of her vast impressive canon.” New York Times Book Review

“Careau’s meticulous and agile translation of this pair of novels brings to Anglophone readers some of Colette’s finest writing, rich in the sensuality for which she is widely known—but also in the sharpness of her social observations…and she does so in a way that feels at once faithful to the author’s era and utterly timeless.” New York Times

“I was left with a new sense of Colette’s self-possession as a writer.” Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night

“An admirably accurate new translation…[that] sensitively renders the unique tone and philosophy of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.” Diana Holmes, author of Colette

“Capture[s] the bone-on-bone feeling of Colette’s prose…Anglophone readers will finally be able to appreciate why Colette is one of the twentieth century’s major writers.” Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse

“In this new translation of Colette’s two most celebrated novels we seem to be reading her in English for the first time—her prose lean, limpid, and knowingly askew.” Richard Sieburth, professor emeritus of French literature, thought, and culture and comparative literature at New York University

Awards

• New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice