Your Father's Room Explained

Your Father's Room
Border:	yes
Author:	Michel Déon
Title Orig:	La chambre de ton père
Country:	France
Language:	French
Publisher:	Éditions Gallimard
Pub Date:	5 February 2004
English Pub Date:	1 June 2017
Pages:	144

Your Father's Room is a 2004 novel by the French writer Michel Déon. It is set in Paris and Monaco in the 1920s and follows a young boy, Édouard, called Teddy. The book is a fictionalised autobiography based on Déon's childhood.^[1]

Publication

The book was published in France on 5 February 2004 through éditions Gallimard.^[2] An English translation is set to be published through Gallic Books on 1 June 2017 in the United Kingdom and 13 June 2017 in the United States.^[3]

Reception

Yasmina Reza of Le Figaro called the book "one of the most beautiful stories about grief that you can read".^[4]

External links

• French publicity page
• British publicity page

Notes and References

1. Book: Marlowe, Lara. 2010. The Things I've Seen. 978-1-909718-09-8.
2. Web site: La chambre de ton père. fr. Éditions Gallimard. 2016-09-24.
3. Web site: Your Father's Room. Belgravia Books. 2016-09-24.
4. Web site: Reza. Yasmina. 2007-10-15. Le sourire douloureux proche du rire. fr. Le Figaro. 2016-09-24. l'un des plus beaux récits de chagrin qu'on puisse lire.