# For Rouenna

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- Authors: [Sigrid Nunez](https://www.bookquiver.com/sigrid-nunez)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2026-07-14

## Description

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation, the story of a woman's experiences of war and an unusual friendship 'Resonant and provocative' VOGUE 'One of my favourite authors' NATALIE PORTMAN I did not remember a Rouenna Zycinski. I was sure I had never known her. But many years ago, according to her letter, we had been neighbors in the same public housing project, on Staten Island. A writer receives a letter from an old acquaintance, recalling their shared childhood and asking if they can meet. Though fascinated by the stories Rouenna tells about her life as a combat nurse in Vietnam, the narrator flatly declines her request that they collaborate on a memoir. It is only later, in the aftermath of Rouenna's shocking death, that the narrator is drawn to write about her friend - and her friend's war. Writing Rouenna's story becomes all-consuming: at once a necessity and the only consolation. 'For Rouenna is about everything: war and remembrance, how we invent our " selves" and why; why we kill ourselves - or live. I was dazzled by this book' WASHINGTON POST 'Beautifully written . . . mesmerizing . . . enthralling' O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE 'An entirely different kind of war novel . . . What emerges is something that feels like truth' SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

## Editions

### For Rouenna

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-03-4902-192-8
- Published: 2026-07-14
- Language: en_GB

### For Rouenna

- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-4902-193-5
- Published: 2026-07-14
- Language: en_GB

### For Rouenna

- Publisher: Little Brown Audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0556-959-0
- Published: 2026-07-14
- Language: en_GB