Our Lady of the Flowers

'A beautifully written, dreamlike book . A story of sex, crime and death, Our Lady of the Flowers is a powerful and original debut novel, which put Genet into the front rank of French writers.

''A beautifully written, dreamlike book . . . A true outlaw artist.'' Bobby Gillespie, The Times

Our Lady of the Flowers, often considered Genet’s masterpiece, was written in the cell of a French prison where he was being held for theft. Here is the darker side of Montmartre, a world of pimps, thieves, prostitutes, queens and blackmailers, where ‘morality’ in the common sense of the word has no meaning. The story of Divine, a drag-queen prostitute, is interwoven with that of one of his lovers, a young man due to be arrested for murder. A story of sex, crime and death, Our Lady of the Flowers is a powerful and original debut novel, which put Genet into the front rank of French writers.

• | Author: M. Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman
• | Publisher: Faber & Faber
• | Publication Date: Mar 07, 2019
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780571340828
• | ISBN-10: 0571340822