by Patrick Grainville · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020827393
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«La Main blessée» is a novel by Patrick Grainville, published by Seuil in paperback (312 pages, in French).
A writer suffers a cramp that paralyzes his hand and prevents him from writing; therapies fail. Nur, a young Egyptian horsewoman who writes at his dictation, feels passion for her mare Melody Centauresse. That sensual presence and the relationship with horses gradually revive his vital impulse.
The novel appeared in Paris in 2006, in Seuil's Cadre rouge collection; the cover bears the subtitle «roman».
General audience interested in contemporary French fiction and in stories where the relationship with animals and desire intertwine.
Patrick Grainville is a French novelist.
