Watching Over Her
The narrative ranges restlessly across the 20th century, reconstructing an extraordinary life through a series of feverish recollections ... Smoothly translated ... For a novel to sustain this ambiguity is a measure of its seriousness and spirit.
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The narrative is enjoyable and gripping in a combination not often found in prestigious prize winners, and it takes a page or two to understand why this big fat historical blockbuster won the Prix Goncourt. But even in translation – and this is a fluid example of the craft – its poetry and its nuance, its passion and philosophical depth, its grasp of moral ambiguity, its clever interweaving of history and fiction, and its superlative characterisation rise quickly to the surface ... Masterly.
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Sweeping ... It's a marvel.
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