CALDER NEW BOOK INFORMATION Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras TRANSLATED BY RICHARD SEAVER SELLING POINTS: • A modern French classic • Only edition in print in the UK • Brand-new, beautifully produced edition in the relaunched Calder series DESCRIPTION: A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a café, watched SERIES: Calder Publications by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed, Anne th January 25 2018 • £7.99 Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene, forming a relationship 978-0-71454-455-7 150 pp • PB with a man who also saw the murder, and drinking through the after- Subject: FC noon with him as he patiently answers her eager questions. Slowly, Rights: World English they fi nd themselves being taken over by forces which threaten their (excluding US/Canada) own stability. Moderato Cantabile is a carefully woven tapestry of emotion, in which the characters’ inner lives are refl ected by the story’s spaces and landscapes. “Duras’s sentences lodge themselves slowly in the reader’s mind until they detonate with all the force of fused feeling and thought.” The New York Times Book Review ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Prix Goncourt winner Marguerite Duras (1914–96) is one of the most infl uential fi gures in French postwar literature, with The Sea Wall, The Lover and Moderato Cantabile among her most famous novels. TO PLACE YOUR ORDER, PLEASE CONTACT: Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Cromwell Place, Hampshire International Business Park, Lime Tree Way, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG24 8YJ Tel: 01256 302 692 or Fax: 01256 812 521 FOR SALES ENQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP Tel: 0207 631 5600 or Fax: 0207 631 5800 For more information about Calder Publications, please visit: www.calderpublications.com.