by Lucien Bodard · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246242413
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«Anne Marie» is the novel by Lucien Bodard, published by B. Grasset in paperback (418 pages, in French).
Lucien arrives in France with his mother, Anne Marie, after leaving China. For three months he experiences intense passion and jealousy while she throws herself into Parisian social life and places him in a luxury boarding school. During the holidays, the reunion reveals a transformed mother, fascinating in the Paris of 1925.
Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1981. The original edition appeared in Paris on May 20, 1981.
For readers of French coming-of-age fiction and family stories set in the high society of 1920s Paris.
Lucien Bodard was a Chinese-born French reporter, and writer on events in East and Southeast Asia, such as the Indochinese nations becoming independent from France, and the Vietnam War.
