Philistine I am, I only recently heard of the Prix Goncourt, apparently France's most prestigious literary award. Unfortunately, the novel by this year's winner, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, isn't out in English yet, so I picked up from my library the 2016 winner, Leïla Slimani's The Perfect Nanny. I give it 2.5 out of 5 stars. Her writing style reminded me of Amélie Nothomb: relative short chapters. Thankfully, The Perfect Nanny is a pretty quick read at around 200 pages. I didn't find the characters very believable. My sense is that Slimani was more concerned with examining class that focusing on plotting. Hopefully the other Prix Goncourt winner I reserved at my library, Hervé Le Tellier's The Anomaly, is better.
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