{"product_id":"breathing-underwater-by-marie-darrieussecq","title":"'Breathing Underwater' by Marie Darrieussecq","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"47\" data-end=\"457\"\u003eA woman leaves Paris without warning, taking her young daughter with her and heading toward the Basque coast.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"47\" data-end=\"457\"\u003eShe withdraws money, tells no one where she is going, and offers no clean explanation for the flight. Behind them, the abandoned husband begins searching; ahead of them is the sea, hotel rooms, beaches, strangers. Her life becomes suspended, an atmosphere instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"459\" data-end=\"1146\"\u003eOriginally published in French as \u003cem data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"508\"\u003eLe Mal de Mer\u003c\/em\u003e, the novel is one of Darrieussecq’s eerie, compressed studies of disappearance, motherhood, and bodily drift. The French title carries a double charge: seasickness, but also something like “mother-sickness” hiding inside it. There is not much plot in the blunt mechanical sense; the force is in the atmosphere, the dislocation, the feeling of a woman slipping sideways out of domestic visibility and into water, weather, refusal. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1148\" data-end=\"1356\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaber and Faber paperback, 2002, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale. Good second-hand condition with light general shelf wear; binding sound and pages clean.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45544865300563,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-06-07T114634.919.png?v=1780796880","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/breathing-underwater-by-marie-darrieussecq","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}