Translated by Penny Hueston
After a thirty-year absence, Clémence returns to the remote mountain where she and her twin sister Lucie were born and where Lucie still lives.
Then the siren goes off, the dreaded warning that the glacier above their village is about to crack, and soon destroy everything in its path.
Lucie is desperate to evacuate, along with the rest of the villagers, but Clémence insists they stay. She says she’s on the run—no one must know she’s come back.
The two women are trapped. One terrified, one strangely calm, they shelter together beneath the glacier, surviving on dwindling supplies.
As catastrophe looms over them, the sisters’ lifelong conflicts return. But which one is telling the truth about their past?
My Sister is a novel about siblings who fear and love each other.
In this spine-chilling novel, Emmanuelle Salasc drills deep into our relationship with nature—and with those closest to us.
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‘A creepy mix of cli-fi disaster fiction and psychological thriller…Salasc writes with enviable crispness, and she laces the central conflict with an exquisite sense of psychological cruelty and menace and mystery.’
‘An excellently written psychological thriller laid upon a substrate of an eco-dystopia, where human and environmental elements are as dangerous as each other.‘
‘With its sparse elegance, psychological acuity, and environmental resonance, My Sister is a novel of remarkable subtlety and power.’
‘At once an ecological dystopia and a domestic drama, My Sister is an impressive psychological thriller…The reader is left in awe. This is an encounter with a major writer.’
‘She might have changed her name (from Pagano to Salasc), but we recognise her work immediately: her meticulous curiosity about what connects human beings to nature…By aligning the dissection of toxic family relationships with a disturbing geo-political fable, My Sister offers fascinating food for thought.’
‘There is a striking purity to Salasc’s writing; brilliance is a matter of course and accompanies a lively sensibility…The beauty of this novel derives from the promise of renewal. My Sister is an edgy dystopia, blazing with hope.’
‘For Emmanuelle Salsac, writing is a form of resistance, a way of preventing the worst…A parallel develops between the possible flood from a glacier and the impulsiveness of the narrator’s twin sister, both of which must be prevented and contained. Of course, things are not that simple…’
