Miranda France creëert boeiende verhalen die ingaan op de complexiteit van de menselijke ervaring, vaak gesitueerd tegen levendige en suggestieve achtergronden. Haar schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een lyrische prozastijl en een scherp inzicht in de complexiteit van relaties en culturele ontmoetingen. France's werk confronteert moedig ongemakkelijke waarheden en zet lezers aan tot het onderzoeken van hun eigen vooroordelen en aannames. Haar literaire benadering is zowel toegankelijk als diepgaand prikkelend, wat haar tot een onderscheidende stem in de hedendaagse literatuur maakt.
Clever, funny and captivating The Writing School is a memoir told by way of a fictionalised account of the author's time teaching a residential writing course deep in the British countryside. A highly original book about writing, writers and what drives us to want to put lives into words.
A funny and poignant account of life in Buenos Aires, by a young prize-winning writer. In 1993 Miranda France moved to South America, drawn to Buenos Aires as the intellectual hub of the continent, with its wealth of writers and its romantic, passionate and tragic history. She found that is was all these things, but it was also a terrible place to live. The inhabitants of Buenos Aires are famously unhappy. All over South America they are known for their arrogance, their fixation of Europe and their moodiness. Very soon, Miranda France encounters' bronca' - the simmering and barely controllable rage that is a staple feature of life in the Argentinian capital. She finds that 'bronca' has deep roots: the violence and racism of the first European settlers; the dictatorships, especially in the 1970s when so many 'disappeared'; even Evita Peron, for there was no rage to rival Evita's.