Live Fast, Brigitte Giraud
Live Fast, Brigitte Giraud
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Live Fast
A Novel

Author: Brigitte Giraud

Narrator: Mozhan Navabi

Unabridged: 3 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 02/11/2025


Synopsis

Winner of the Prix Goncourt A powerful autobiographical novel of loss, the incandescent love that remains, and the small decisions that define the course of fatePaced and structured with the inevitable suspense of a countdown, Brigitte Giraud’s tense and haunting novel follows one woman’s quest to comprehend the motorcycle accident that took the life of her partner Claude at age 41.The narrator of Live Fast recounts the chain of events that led up to the fateful accident, tracing the tiny, maddening twists of fate that might have prevented its tragic outcome. Each chapter asks the rhetorical question, “what if,” departing from an image or memory from early years in Algeria during the war, to moving to the suburbs of Lyon, buying and renovating a home where they could “put down their suitcase for a whole life.” A sensitive elegy to her husband and a subtle, precise vision of a lasting love, Live Fast is a moving and electrifying portrait of two people caught up in the mundane activities of life, forgetting that living itself can be dangerous.

About Brigitte Giraud

Brigitte Giraud is a French writer and novelist and the author of fourteen books. She received the 2022 Prix Goncourt for Live Fast, which was also a big bestseller in France. Live Fast is her first book to be published in English.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Fátima on August 16, 2024

"A casa, as chaves, a garagem, a minha mãe, o meu irmão, o Japão, Tadao Baba, a semana de férias, Hélene, os meus autógrafos. Já começa a ser uma confusão danada." Este livro é um conjunto de "e se...?". Uma forma que, penso eu, a autora encontrou de relembrar o seu amado marido, exorcizar e fazer as......more

Goodreads review by Julia on November 03, 2022

J’ai été profondément touchée par cette lecture. L’intimité des mots, la force des souvenirs, cette tendresse qu’on finit par ressentir pour cet homme qui aimait la musique et sa femme. Ce récit restera longtemps dans mon cœur.......more

Goodreads review by İpek Dadakçı on October 10, 2023

Tıpkı Paul Auster’ın 4321’i, Kate Atkinson’ın Hayat, Sil Baştan’ı ya da Jenny Erpenbeck’in Bütün Günlerin Akşamı romanları gibi hayattaki alternatif olasılıklarla ilgili bir novella Hızlı Yaşamak. Bu kez kurgunun merkezinde tek ve çok acı bir kırılma noktası var; alternatif olasılıklar bu tek olaya......more

Goodreads review by Jovi on July 15, 2023

Dacă n-ar fi fost așa, ar fi fost altfel. Istoria contrafactuală nu o găsim doar în cărțile de non-ficțiune, ci și în romane foarte bune, precum acest „Viața la viteză maximă”. Brigitte Giraud se întoarce aici în timp, într-un roman profund autobiografic, pentru a retrăi accidentul de acum 20 de ani......more

Goodreads review by Nelson on November 09, 2023

Há muito que não lia um livro capaz de me tocar tão intensamente durante a leitura. Giraud cria um mundo particularmente humano, secular e psicológico a propósito da recordação do marido que morreu há 20 anos num acidente de mota. É uma viagem, ao longo de todos os "se" que "se" não tivessem acontec......more