by Daniel Picouly · Editions 84 · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782290051771
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«Fort de l'Eau» is the novel by Daniel Picouly published by Editions 84 in paperback (347 pages, in French).
In «Fort de l'Eau», a fourteen-year-old boy recalls the summer of 1962 when his father fulfills his promise to take the family to Algeria. Settled in Fort de l'Eau, near Algiers, he discovers a new country, its smells and sensations, and also the awakening of the body and the gaze towards women, amid dramas, laughter and the presence of some Bengali finches that one day fly away forever.
The work was originally published in 1997; this paperback edition came out on September 10, 1999.
For readers of contemporary French literature and coming-of-age stories with a historical backdrop.
Daniel Picouly is a French writer.
