Nothing Is Known

Original title: Rien n’est su

Author: Garrigues, Sabine

Publication Date:

September 2023

Pages:

128

Original language and publisher

French | Le Tripode

Territories Handled

Netherlands, Scandinavia

Genres

Literary Non-Fiction, Narrative Non-Fiction

Awards:

  • Prix du Roman news 2023 (longlisted)

Nothing Is Known

Original title: Rien n’est su

Author: Garrigues, Sabine

Synopsis

A powerful and poetical text on a woman looking for her daughter in Paris the night of the Bataclan terrorist attack.

Rien n’est su is a serious, luminous story, filled with the love between a mother and her daughter. What to do when the world collapses and life remains? Sabine Garrigues tells the story of the irruption of violence in her life, the brutality of death, the lack. The words, emancipated from capital letters and all punctuation, tell of the unbearable absence, but also of the beauty of a world that understands emptiness and pain: “death feeds life / before I didn’t know it / now I do”.