True Stories

By Sophie Calle,

Book cover of True Stories

Book description

This expanded edition of Calle's 1994 classic features four new tales

First published in French in 1994, quickly acclaimed as a photobook classic and since republished and enhanced, True Stories returns for the fifth time, gathering a series of short autobiographical texts and photos by acclaimed French artist Sophie Calle,…

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Why read it?

1 author picked True Stories as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

In these very short autobiographical pieces, each one paired with a photograph, Sophie Calle illuminates various small and large moments from her life in Paris and elsewhere, from her childhood through her parents' deaths. I have yet to meet a person who is not enchanted by this thin, endearing, and magical book.

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