by William Trevor · Editions Phébus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782752905772
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«Cet été-là» is the novel by William Trevor, published by Editions Phébus in paperback (252 pages, in French).
In the 1950s, in the small Irish town of Rathmoye, Ellie, a farmer's wife, meets Florian Kilderry, an outsider photographer who photographs the attendees at a funeral. Mutual curiosity turns into a forbidden romance: Ellie longs to escape her monotonous life, and Florian, recently orphaned, only thinks of leaving Ireland.
The original title of «Cet été-là» is «Love and Summer» (2009). The French translation is by Bruno Boudard. «Cet été-là» was nominated for the Booker Prize and the Dublin Literary Award.
For book clubs and fans of literary fiction with romance and an Irish rural setting.
William Trevor Cox was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize, the last for his novel Love and Summer (2009), which was also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2011. His name was also mentioned in relation to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
