by Laurent Mauvignier · Les Editions de Minuit · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707356741
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«La maison vide» is the literary fiction novel by Laurent Mauvignier, published by Les Editions de Minuit in paperback (752 pages, in French).
In 1976 the narrator's father reopens a family house that had been closed for twenty years. Inside there is a piano, a chest of drawers, a Legion of Honor and photographs with a cut-out face; from these objects, the French rural life of the first half of the 20th century, the two world wars and the memory of Marguerite and her family are reconstructed.
Winner of the Prix Goncourt 2025.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction seeking family sagas with historical background and rural memory.
Laurent Mauvignier is a French writer. He won the 2025 Prix Goncourt for La Maison vide. He is the brother of director Thierry Mauvignier.
