by Olivier Adam · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757800683
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«Falaises» is a novel by Olivier Adam, published by Points in paperback (192 pages, in French).
In Étretat, a man stays awake on the balcony of a hotel facing the cliffs from which his mother threw herself twenty years ago. During that night, the narrator reviews his childhood, his youth in Paris, the father's brutality and the brother's flight, and searches his memories for traces of the absent mother. The question that runs through him: how he goes on living.
The work belongs to Literature and Fiction, was published on August 3, 2006 and consists of 192 pages.
For readers of contemporary French fiction interested in memory, family and grief.
Olivier Adam is a French author and screenwriter. His debut novel Je vais bien, ne t’en fais pas was adapted into the eponymous film. He also writes books for young adults, among them La messe anniversaire. Adam won the 2004 Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle for Passer l'hiver.
