by Véronique Ovaldé · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782290022054
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«Ce que je sais de Vera Candida» is the novel by Véronique Ovaldé, published in 2011 by J’Ai Lu in paperback (320 pages, in French).
On an imaginary island, three generations of women share the same curse: bringing daughters into the world to be raised without a father. Vera Candida, granddaughter of a fisherwoman from Vatapuna who caught flying fish, grows up amid family secrets and neglect, and eventually leaves the island to try to write her own story.
The novel won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens 2009, the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle 2010, and the Prix France Télévisions.
For readers of French fiction centered on female characters, family ties, and plots set on an imaginary island.
Véronique Ovaldé is a French novelist. Her fifth novel Et mon cœur transparent won the Prix France Culture/Télérama in 2008. Her seventh novel Ce que je sais de Vera Candida won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens (2009), the Prix France Télévisions (2009) and the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle (2010). She has had two books translated into English by Adriana Hunter, but Ovaldé's other titles are still available for interested publishers and translators. In 2024, she published A nos vies imparfaites which received the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle.
