A Leopard-Skin Hat

A quintessential early novel about an intense friendship, by the winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle.  A Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a “masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance,” it is the story of an intense friendship between “the Narrator” and his close childhood friend, Fanny, who suffers from profound psychological disorders. A series of short scenes paints the portrait of a strong-willed and tor