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  • Published: 15 April 2017
  • ISBN: 9781590518328
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $37.99

Who You Think I Am

A Novel




In a vertiginous play of mirrors between fantasy and virtual reality, Camille Laurens relates the dangerous liaisons of a woman who refuses to give up on desire.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIETTE BINOCHE

This psychological thriller dissects online relationships, offering a stunning indictment of the way society perceives women in contrast to men when age comes into play.

This is the story of Claire Millecam, a forty-eight-year-old teacher and divorcée who creates a fake social media profile to keep tabs on Joe, her occasional, elusive, and inconstant lover. Under the false identity of Claire Antunes, a young and beautiful twenty-four-year-old, she starts a correspondence with Chris—pseudonym KissChris—which soon turns into an Internet love affair.

Dangerous Liaisons for our times, Who You Think I Am exposes the disconnect between fantasy and reality. Social media allows us to put ourselves on display, to indulge in secrets, but above all to lie, to recreate a life, to become our own fiction—magnifying and manipulating the double standards to which older women are held when they refuse to give up on desire.

Simultaneously sensual, intellectually stimulating, and utterly relevant, this page-turner will stick in your mind long after reading.

  • Published: 15 April 2017
  • ISBN: 9781590518328
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $37.99

About the author

Camille Laurens

Camille Laurens is an award-winning French novelist and essayist. She received the Prix Femina, one of France’s most prestigious literary prizes, in 2000 for Dans ces bras-là, which was published in the United States as In His Arms in 2004. Her previous books include Who You Think I Am (Other Press, 2017), Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (Other Press, 2018), and Girl (Other Press, 2022). She lives in Paris.

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Praise for Who You Think I Am

"In this ingenious and intelligent novel, Camille Laurens revisits, like a genius in the virtual world, a romantic encounter." --Elle (France)

"Are women no longer desirable when they reach their 50s? Camille Laurens works against this masculine dictate in WHO YOU THINK I AM, a striking and intricate novel." --Le Monde des Livres

"Camille Laurens enjoys exploring love, especially the foreplay and the fallout." --Le Figaro Litteraire