by Yann Queffélec · france loisirs · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724277302
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«La Menace» is the novel by Yann Queffélec, published in 1993 by France Loisirs in hardcover (62 pages, in French).
Charlie, a ten-year-old Black boy raised in an orphanage, is taken in by Mado and Monsieur Bob. His new life is far from a fairy tale: Erik, the couple's son, a racist skinhead, makes his life a misery. After an incident on an expedition, the threat changes sides, though not for long.
For readers of French fiction interested in short stories of tension and racism.
Yann Queffélec is a French author who won the Prix Goncourt in 1985 for his novel Les Noces barbares, translated into English as The Wedding or The Savage Wedding. He is the former husband of the late pianist Brigitte Engerer and the brother of musician Anne Queffélec. Their father was the writer Henri Queffélec.
