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Rachel Careau

Rachel Careau is a writer and translator and the author of one book of prose poems, Itineraries. She is working on a translation of Roger Lewinter’s L’Apparat de l’âme.

Rachel Careau

Rachel Careau is a writer and translator and the author of one book of prose poems, Itineraries. She is working on a translation of Roger Lewinter’s L’Apparat de l’âme.

Books by Rachel Careau

  • Story of Love in Solitude

    Roger Lewinter, Rachel Careau

    Paperback, 2016

    A notable discovery of a truly original voice
  • The Attraction of Things

    Roger Lewinter, Rachel Careau

    Paperback, 2016

    Stunning fragments that offer an epiphany of grace and beauty
  • The Attraction of Things

    Roger Lewinter, Rachel Careau

    E Book, 2016

    Stunning fragments that offer an epiphany of grace and beauty
  • Story of Love in Solitude

    Roger Lewinter, Rachel Careau

    E Book, 2016

    A notable discovery of a truly original voice
  • Chéri and The End of Chéri

    Colette, Rachel Careau, Lydia Davis

    E Book, 2022

    A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

    An exquisite new translation of Colette’s tragicomic masterpiece, a pair of novels exploring the relationship between an aging courtesan and a much...
  • Chéri and The End of Chéri

    Colette, Rachel Careau, Lydia Davis

    Paperback, 2025

    A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

    An exquisite new translation of Colette’s tragicomic masterpiece, a pair of novels exploring the relationship between an aging courtesan and a much...
  • Chéri and The End of Chéri

    Colette, Rachel Careau, Lydia Davis

    Hardback, 2022

    An exquisite new translation of Colette’s tragicomic masterpiece, a pair of novels exploring the relationship between an aging courtesan and a much younger man.
  • The Pure and the Impure

    Colette, Rachel Careau

    Hardback, 2026

    Journey through the sexual underworld of Belle Époque Paris in the first new English translation of Colette’s masterpiece in nearly sixty years

  • The Pure and the Impure

    Colette, Rachel Careau

    E Book

    Journey through the sexual underworld of Belle Époque Paris in the first new English translation of Colette’s masterpiece in nearly sixty years.