French braid
14.99 €
11.99 €
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French braid
14.99 €
11.99 €
A new novel by everyone's favorite classic. Warm, slightly ironic, insightful. It is again a journey into the world of an ordinary family. From the 1950s, with a gleaming red Chevrolet honking outside the window, to the present day, awash in pandemonium. In the summer of 1959, the 1&rretts go on their first and last family vacation. They hardly ever leave the rented cottage, but in a way they have never been so far apart. After that trip, everyone in the family discreetly but ever more surely begins to drift away from each other. Mercy can hardly resist the itch - she wants so badly to be an artist. But then who will take care of the house, cook dinners for her husband Robin? Her daughters, the poised Alice and the boy-crazed Lily, are completely unlike each other and find no common ground. Their younger brother David, having left to study, almost cuts ties with the family. And yet something connects them all, despite all the differences and misunderstandings, something elusive. And each member of this seemingly disconnected family has an impact on the lives of all the others. Because family is something deeper than just kinship relations, family is like a French plait: you think you have escaped from your relatives, but it is impossible to free yourself from them, they are still intertwined, like the curls of a loose plait. Full of love for people, hope, joy mixed with bitterness, "The French Plait" is a classic Anne Tyler story. A wonderfully insightful novel about family abysses, about the impossibility of freeing ourselves from those who love us.
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