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The Scent of Flowers at Night

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'A revelation' KATY HESSEL
'Brilliant' OBSERVER

Over one night, alone in the Punta della Dogana Museum in Venice, Leïla Slimani grapples with the self as it is revealed in solitude. In a place of old and new, she confronts her past and her present, through her life as a Moroccan woman, as a writer, and as a daughter. Surrounded by art, she explores what it means to behold and clasp beauty; enveloped by night, she confronts the meaning of life and death.

Translated from the French by Sam Taylor©2023 Leïla Slimani (P)2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Authors Art & Literature Biographies & Memoirs Cultural & Regional Heartfelt

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An engaging meditation on literature, death, deracination and tourism (Lucy Ellmann)
Mesmerising. I inhaled this writer's poetic meditation on time and the creative process (Sheena Patel)
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