Connemara
Connemara
14.99 €
The novel's title smells of peat and damp grass, echoing in elite business schools, at country weddings, in youth nightclubs, and at quiet family gatherings. This is because in France, Michel Sardou's song about the lakes of Connemara is known by many, if not everyone.
And the novel's characters are no exception.
Hélène is almost forty. Born in a small town in eastern France, she worked hard to leave the provinces and build a life worthy of the glossy magazines she read as a teenager. However, now that she seems to have it all—a husband, two daughters, a successful career, and a huge house—she feels unfulfilled, as if years of her life have been wasted.
Christophe recently turned forty, and he never left the small town where he grew up. He's no longer as handsome as he once was, divorced, living in his parents' house, amusing himself by pulling silly pranks with his friends, selling dog food, and cherishing the dream of playing hockey, just like he did at sixteen, when he was a high school star. It would seem like a complete failure, but Christophe is confident that the best is yet to come.
Their novel is a mercilessly relevant, frank love story, imbued with melancholy, hope, and fury. But Mathieu writes about more than just love: generations of French people find a voice in the book's pages. Their cries, laughter, cries, whispers, and moans resound as one song.
And the novel's characters are no exception.
Hélène is almost forty. Born in a small town in eastern France, she worked hard to leave the provinces and build a life worthy of the glossy magazines she read as a teenager. However, now that she seems to have it all—a husband, two daughters, a successful career, and a huge house—she feels unfulfilled, as if years of her life have been wasted.
Christophe recently turned forty, and he never left the small town where he grew up. He's no longer as handsome as he once was, divorced, living in his parents' house, amusing himself by pulling silly pranks with his friends, selling dog food, and cherishing the dream of playing hockey, just like he did at sixteen, when he was a high school star. It would seem like a complete failure, but Christophe is confident that the best is yet to come.
Their novel is a mercilessly relevant, frank love story, imbued with melancholy, hope, and fury. But Mathieu writes about more than just love: generations of French people find a voice in the book's pages. Their cries, laughter, cries, whispers, and moans resound as one song.
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