Book Launch: Epic Annette
The Goethe Institut London is delighted to present, in cooperation with the Institut Français in London, the new English translation of the prose poem Epic Annette by Anne Weber (published by The Indigo Press). The book, which won the German Book Prize 2020, was originally published both in German (Annette, ein Heldinnenepos) and French (Annette, une épopée). Discussing the title in front of a live audience will be author Anne Weber, translator Tess Lewis, and publisher Susie Nicklin.
Epic Annette is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, aged 19, joined the French Resistance and saved the lives of two Jewish children in Paris on the eve of their deportation to the camps.
Dramatic Escape
As a doctor and mother devoted to justice and equality, Annette was later found guilty of treachery for supporting the Algerian FLN in France and was sentenced to ten years in prison. The story of her dramatic escape, trial in absentia and decades in exile, separated from her children, resembles that of the great heroes whose love for individuals had to compete with their destiny and love of humanity.
Epic Annette will remain with you forever. With this gripping personal tale of heroism and grief, author Anne Weber’s work recalls Homer in her ability to conjure a titan in an epic poem.
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