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Il N Y a Personne Dans Les Tombes
Paperback
ISBN13: 9782234060661
Publisher: Stock
Published: Nov 8 2021
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
New revelations about the characters of Option Paradis (2005) and Telling (2006):
Louise and Nicolas, the cousins who are also a couple are still together. She is allowed to keep a lover. On Sunday 21 April 2002, we find them at the HQ of a candidate for the French presidency.
During the summer of 2005, Christophe Herdoin, Louise's brother, looses his shadow on a beach in Vietnam. Will he find it again?
After her death in 1976, the truth about the free life led by the unhappily married Pauline of Vernery-sur-Arre emerges, breaking the silence imposed by the Herdoin clan.
In the autumn of 2009, in Brussels, Athanase, who escaped an African war, continues to think about the Bantamas, his native people, and decides to write a novel. He will become Sobel the writer. Élie Rubien, the Jewish hairdresser from Belleville, once an immigrant from Ukraine, dies an amnesiac. Close to Verney, the castle of the La Ronzière has apparently fallen into the hands of a sect...
Il n'y a personne dans les tombes offers a rich and varied tale of criss-crossing lives that reveals the mysteries and repressed secrets of an increasingly normative society.
François Taillandier's characters exist in a historical context steeped in ancient myths, where architecture, religion, economy, literature are in constant mutation. The three volumes of this triptych need not be read in their order of publication.
There is at least one piece of good news this time: the graves are empty.
After Anielka (awarded the prize for best novel of the Académie française, Stock, 1999) and Le cas Gentile (Stock, 2001), Il n'y a personne dans les tombes continues the mad saga launched by François Taillandier with Option Paradis and pursued in Telling.
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