Jakuta Alikavazovic

This book was written as part of a multi-author project which invited authors to spend the night in a museum of their choice and then asked them to write a text based on that experience. It was started in 2018, and this book is the result of the author spending the night in the Louvre in Paris.

This is a small book – almost a novella. In March of 2020, only days before Covid took over, the author left her 3-month-old son and husband to spend the night in the Louvre. While there, she begins show more to reminisce about the many times she came to the Louvre with her father. She considers how he came to Paris from Hungary and how he tried to reinvent himself to be Parisian. And she thinks about his parting question each time they left the museum: “How would you go about stealing the Mona Lisa?”.

This book was short-listed for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for US/Canada for 2025 and was brought to my attention by Sarah from the Eyes on Indie YouTube channel. show less

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Alikavazovic-Histoires-contre-nature/834688

> Voici un livre qui sort radicalement de l'ordinaire, qui bouscule tout sur son passage, à adorer ou à détester. C'est assez rare pour être souligné.
—Danieljean (Babelio)