Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters “Jane Delury’s startling, accomplished first novel, The Balcony, devotes itself to the lives of the inhabitants of a French manor house and attached servants’ cottage over a century. The beautifully arranged structure leads the reader back and forth in time through changes in place and history, revealing the interconnected stories of individual characters with a master’s subtlety. Memorable, distinct, surprising, The Balcony evokes two World Wars, a terrorist attack, and family secrets passed on generation to generation, rendering architectural and human interiors with introspective sadness and beauty.” — Citation by the Literature Award Committee (Joy Williams, Amy Hempel, Henri Cole, John Guare, and Jayne Anne Phillips) Published by Little, Brown in the US, Hodder & Stoughton in Australia and New Zealand, and Colibri in Bulgaria.
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