by Véronique Ovaldé · OLIVIER · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782879296791
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«Ce que je sais de Vera Candida» is the literary fiction novel by Véronique Ovaldé, published by Éditions de l'Olivier in paperback (300 pages, in French).
In an imaginary South America, three women of the same lineage seem condemned to the same fate: giving birth to a daughter without being able to reveal the father's name. Rose, Violette and Vera Candida are bold and freedom-loving, but only the third dares to try to break the curse. Vera flees the island of Vatapuna and settles in Lahomeria, where she hopes for a life without a past until the journalist Itxaga endangers her longing.
The book won the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle 2010 and the Prix Renaudot des lycéens in 2009. French edition originally published in 2009.
Recommended for readers of contemporary French fiction seeking a fable about female inheritance, freedom and identity in an imaginary tropical setting.
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.
