Sign-In
Cart
Tata
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $30.00
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: Jun 23 2026
Pages: 592
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
July 2026 Indie Next Pick
Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Book
Valérie Perrin's First New Novel since her breakout bestseller Fresh Water for Flowers
Valérie Perrin is a prodigious storyteller.--Elle
Tata is Perrin's most ambitious, most intimate, most liberating, most important book yet.--Le Parisien
When Agnes hears from the local police her Aunt Colette has died, she can't believe her ears. Her father's sister Colette, her Tata, died three years ago and has been resting in peace in the cemetery of Gueugnon.
Agnes is called to identify the body: there is no doubt, it's Aunt Colette. But then, who rests under the stone engraved with Colette's name? And why did she fake her own death? So begins an investigation back in time, as Agnes pieces together the multitude of stories that lie behind her aunt's second death.
An intricate, compelling web of stories told with irony, delicacy and depth, Tata will keep readers glued to every page.
★ A bewitching novel about found family and the transformative power of love.--Foreword Reviews (starred)
★ An exquisitely layered story... Reading Tata is like reading several great novels at once.--BookPage (starred)
Also from
Perrin, Valérie
Also in
Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (Loa #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick
Updike, John
Hardcover
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback