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Lili Is Crying
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Lili Is Crying

by Hélène Bessette

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Paperback · 192 pages New Directions · 2025

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Lili Is Crying

A New Yorker Best Book of 2025

Shortlisted for the 2025 French-American Foundation Translation Prize and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

Lili Is Crying, Hélène Bessette’s debut novel, conveys with singular force the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother, Charlotte. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette's stripped-back prose evokes at once the pain of thwarted love—of desire run cold—and the promise of renewal. Lauded by critics on its initial 1953 publication for its boundary-pushing style, Lili Is Crying catapulted Bessette to cult status in France. The novel is moving and maddening in turns, with its characters trapped in their own cruelties and sorrows, but in its spareness and strength it feels true. "Show me a woman who's chosen something." Bessette's books were hailed for their unusual economy of expression, rarity, strange humor, and sheer vivacity. She characterized her new kind of novel as "a freshly cut slice of life, whose force comes from its lack of commentary."



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Publisher
New Directions
Author
Hélène Bessette
Format
Paperback
Published
Jul 22, 2025
ISBN-13
9780811239660
ISBN-10
0811239667
Pages
192
Carton quantity
60 copies
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