Could you put your beliefs before your family?

Epic Annette is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nineteen years old, joined the French Resistance and saved the lives of two Jewish children in Paris on the eve of their deportation to the camps.

As a doctor and mother devoted to justice and equality, Annette was later found guilty of treachery for supporting the Algerian FLN in France and sentenced to ten years in prison. The story of her dramatic escape, trial in absentia and decades in exile, separated from her children, resembles that of the great heroes whose love for individuals had to compete with their destiny and love of humanity.

Annette will remain with you forever. With this gripping personal tale of heroism and grief, author Anne Weber joins Homer in her ability to conjure a titan in an epic poem.

About the Author

Anne Weber is a German-French author, translator into both French and German and self-translator. She studied in Paris and worked for several publishers.

Anne Weber started writing and publishing in French, but immediately translated her first book Ida invente la poudre into German as Ida erfindet das Schiesspulver. Since then she has written each of her books in French and German.

Her self-translations are often published at the same time in France and Germany. In 2005 she received the 3Sat award at the Festival of German-Language Literature. For her translation of Pierre Michon she received a European translation award, the Europaischer UEbersetzerpreis Offenburg. She was awarded the 2020 German Book Prize for Annette, ein Heldinnenepos which has sold more than 200,000 copies.

Reviews

'A reading delight from start to finish.'

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/anne-weber-deutscher-buchpreis-annette-ein-heldinnenepos-rezension-buchkritik-1.4891164

-- Joseph Hanimann * Die Suddeutsche Zeitung *

'A bold and moving exploration of the ethics of heroism.'

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/annette-ein-heldinnenepos-anne-weber-book-review/

- review of the German Edition

-- Anna Katharina Schaffner * Times Literary Supplement *

Editor's Choice Preview

'A riveting and highly original retelling of the life of Annette Beaumanoir.'

https://www.thebookseller.com/previews/epic-annette-a-heroine8217s-tale

-- Caroline Sanderson * The Bookseller *

'A heroine in a murky world: Anne Beaumanoir and the ethics of resistance'
'At the heart of Weber's book is the instability of our conceptions of heroism, nuanced by hindsight.'
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/annette-ein-heldinnenepos-anne-weber-book-review/

-- Anna Katharina Schaffner * The TLS *

Guest review by Anne Sebba: Epic Annette - A Heroine's Tale by Anne Weber, translated by Tess Lewis

'Annette Beaumanoir is a rare heroine whose fierce courage almost demands an unusual, and beautiful, account of her life. She stood out in life and this epic will ensure that she is honoured in death. She deserves nothing less.'

http://reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2022/06/guest-review-by-anne-sebba-epic-annette.html

-- Anne Sebba * Writer's Review *

Epic Annette - Translation and international acclaim

'An exceptional prose poem'

https://www.new-books-in-german.com/epic-annette/

-- Ruth Martin * New Books in German *

Epic Annette: a nuanced, immensely moving testimony to an improbable life

'While emulating an ancient form, Weber's poem is charged with a political mission to bring to life stories historically left untold. It's a bravura move that pays off; Epic Annette is a history lesson unlike any other'

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2022/08/20/epic-annette-nuanced-immensely-moving-testimony-to-an-improbable-life/

-- Roisin Kiberd * The Irish Times *

Book Review: "Epic Annette" - What is Heroism?

"Historical asides like this one, stunning at least to this reader, provide more than enrichment; they expand the biography of an extraordinary individual into an expressionist portrait of a swath of one European century."

https://artsfuse.org/269440/book-review-epic-annette-what-is-heroism/

-- Kai Maristed * The Arts Fuse *

Epic Annette - Anne Weber

https://www.full-stop.net/2023/03/31/reviews/emily-hershman/epic-annette-anne-weber/

-- Emilt Hershman * Full Stop *

This Week in Books: The hair of an It Girl laid on an altar for the dead.

https://endoftheworld.substack.com/p/this-week-in-books-the-hair-of-an

* The End of the World Review *

The Watchlist: May 2023 - Words Without Borders

-- Tobias Carroll * Words Without Borders (WWB) *


Awards
Winner of German Book Prize 2020.



Book Information
ISBN 9781911648451
Author Anne Weber
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint The Indigo Press
Publisher The Indigo Press