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De Vigan writes with documentary precision: No’s hunger is a chronic pain that shapes her geography. She knows which soup kitchens serve on which days. She knows the exact hour the baker throws away the unsold bread. A day without hunger for No is a day of survival—a day she does not have to rummage through bins, a day her stomach does not contract into a fist.

As the protagonist loses control of her life, she finds a perverse sense of power in controlling her hunger. The loss of weight becomes a tangible, albeit deadly, testament to her willpower. The Reclaiming of the Body: The novel is a bildungsroman delphine de vigan dias sin hambre best

First published in 2007 and awarded the prestigious Prix des libraires (Booksellers' Prize), Días sin hambre —which translates literally to Days without hunger —is the story of a collision between two Frances: the privileged intellectual and the invisible street child. De Vigan writes with documentary precision: No’s hunger