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An incredible, epic love letter to Catherine Deneuve and all things considered “foreign.” A book I will recommend to anyone and everyone, especially cinephiles (but no background in film necessary)

This is a book I bought on a whim for its strange, surreal premise involving a kidnapping, communist parties, and a woman's obsession with the films of Catherine Deneuve. I haven't read it yet but I think it's the only one I have for today's #eyesoncovers. The author has been getting some coverage lately for Memoirs of a Polar Bear which also sounds surreal and is on my TBR. #maybookflowers @RealLifeReading

he Naked Eye is a captivating read from start to finish. It's told from the perspective of a young Vietnamese woman who is kidnapped while visiting East Germany for a communist party conference. In trying to escape she ends up on a train headed to Paris instead of Moscow. Lost, adrift, she begins obsessively watching movies starring Catherine Deneuve and spends the next ten years doing everything she can to be able to go to the movies every night.