**Winner, Albertine Prize 2018**
**Finalist, Lamba Literary Awards 2018**
**Finalist, French American Foundation Translation Prize 2018**
Available in a new edition, Anne Garreta's sensual portrayal of trysts past.
Not One Day begins with a maxim: 'Not one day without a woman'. What follows is an intimate, erotic, and sometimes bitter recounting of loves and lovers past, breathtakingly written, exploring the interplay between memory, fantasy, and desire. Organised alphabetically, Not One Day remembers the evanescent thrill of each encounter, dismissing the ultimatum of truth in favour of an enigmatic assemblage.
'For life is too short to submit to reading poorly written books and sleeping with women one does not love.'
About the Author :
Anne Garreta, author of the groundbreaking novel Sphinx (Deep Vellum, 2015), is a member of the renowned Oulipo literary group. Not One Day won the Prix Medicis in 2002, recognizing Garreta as an author "whose fame does not yet match their talent." Garreta is also the author of In Concrete, translated by Emma Ramadan (Deep Vellum, 2021).
Emma Ramadan is a literary translator of poetry and prose from France, the Middle East, and North Africa. She is the recipient of a Fulbright, an NEA Translation Fellowship, a PEN/Heim grant, and the 2018 Albertine Prize. Her translations for Deep Vellum include Anne Garreta's Sphinx and In Concrete, Fouad Laroui's The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers, and Brice Matthieussent's Revenge of the Translator.
Review :
One of Literary Hub's "30 Books We're Looking Forward To" in 2017
Recommended in CLMP’s 2020 "Reading List for Pride Month & Beyond"
Selected by Words Without Borders as one of "8 Queer Books in Translation to Read for Pride Month 2020"
Recommended in Flavorwire’s “22 Essential Women Writers to Read in Translation”
One of The New Yorker's "Best Books We Read in 2021"
"I could smother the book with adoration—it is aching and maddening, intelligent and wildly sexy. But it would be simpler to say that reading it is like meeting someone new and feeling the world come undone. Here is a book that insists that the desire for fiction, for its mimicry and its mirage, is indistinguishable from the desire for another person." —Merve Emre, The New Yorker
“Winner of the Prix Medicis, this intense collection of Garreta’s memories of past loves—written under strict Oulipian constraints—is at times at once tender, bitter, and intimate.” —Literary Hub
“Garréta more or less perfected the post-modern confessional, doing so with a self-awareness that many authors fail to accomplish… Not One Day is a casual revelation; a delight.” —Sean Redmond, fields Magazine
“Deep Vellum has brought out one of the best books I’ve read this year, one whose compact nature contains more room inside than might be guessed from its modest exterior. Happily, Anne Garréta’s ambition is to create books that are not the products of an assembly line.” —Jeff Bursey, The Winnipeg Review
