by Véronique Ovalde · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757843086
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«La grâce des brigands» is the novel by Véronique Ovaldé, published by Points in paperback (288 pages, in French).
At sixteen, Maria Cristina Väätonen leaves a misty northern city to settle in Santa Monica in the seventies. Left behind are a taciturn father, a very devout mother, and a jealous sister. Then she crosses paths with Rafael Claramunt, an eccentric who cultivates his legend as a would-be Nobel-winning writer and perhaps wants to steal her talent.
This Points edition was published in May 2014; the novel had originally appeared in 2013. In 2017 it was nominated for the Giuseppe Acerbi Prize.
For readers of French fiction interested in coming-of-age stories, family secrets, and literary ambition.
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.
