Delphine de Vigan: Prix Renaudot des Lycéens 2011

Delphine de Vigan: RIEN NE S'OPPOSE A LA NUIT

JC Lattès, August 2011, 400 pages

200,000 copies sold in France already! 

Number 1 on the bestsellers lists in France

Awarded Prix Roman Fnac 2011, Prix Renaudot des Lycéeens 2011, and  

Prix du Roman France-Télévisions 2011

Rights sold to: 

Sweden (Sekwa), Norway (Cappelen), Finland (WSOY), Denmark(People'sPress), the Netherlands (De Geus),

UK (Bloomsbury), Italy (Mondadori), Germany (Droemer), Sweden (Sekwa), Poland (Sonia Draga), Czech Republic (Euromedia), 

Turkey (Arunas), Korea (Joongang Books), China (Shanghai 99) and Spain (Anagrama / Edicions 62).

Long-listed for Prix Renaudot, Prix Médicis, Prix du Roman France-Télévisions, Prix Goncourt, Prix Goncourt des lycéens and Prix Femina

“I don’t remember when the idea surfaced to write about my mother, around my mother or beginning with my mother. My mother, Lucille’s despair was part of our childhood and, later on, part of our adulthood. We are no doubt made of Lucille’s pain, my sister and I, but any attempt to explain this is destined to fail. Writing will only barely allow me to ask questions and search my memory but is powerless to do anything else.

Lucille’s family, our family, has been the object of many suppositions and commentaries throughout the years. My family can be defined as joy at its loudest and most spectacular, as the relentless echo of the dead and as the reverberation of disaster. Today, I know that like so many others, my family possesses the power to destroy the Verb, and the power of silence. Perhaps the book would be nothing but the account of this inquiry. It would contain, in itself, its own genesis, narrative wanderings and unfinished attempts. But it would be that impulse, that momentum towards her, raw and hesitant.”

In this brilliant investigation into the heart of family memory, where the most luminous images juxtapose the deepest darkest secrets, Delphine de Vigan speaks powerfully of all our lives, our weaknesses and personal suffering.

Delphine de Vigan is the author of bestseller NO ET MOI - more than 400 000 copies sold, winner of the Prix des Libraires 2008, translated into 25 languages, and made into a film. She has also written, among others, LES HEURES SOUTERRAINES (2009) - first edition sold over 100 000 copies. She lives in Paris.

« Un récit sensible et fascinant, qui fait écho aux blessures de chacun » Lire

« Dans ce roman dense et sidérant se dessine un long chemin d’écriture, empli de doutes, d’hésitations et d’errances narratives. Un chemin sinueux mais tendu par la force d’un amour, d’un élan vital » Le Monde

« RIEN EN S’OPPOSE À LA NUIT se révèle un livre somptueux » Le Point

« Elle peut être sereine Delphine de Vigan, car non seulement elle vient d’écrire un superbe et bouleversant texte, un de ceux qu’on referme le cœur serré et la main tremblante, mais avec noblesse et délicatesse, elle a rendu le plus beau des hommages à sa mère et à sa famille » Pages

« D'une écriture fluide et belle, si particulière a Delphine de Vigan, RIEN EN S’OPPOSE À LA NUIT est sans aucun doute son roman le plus personnel, mais aussi le plus bouleversant. Un livre qui nous habite longtemps » Lire