La nuit de Calama

Synopsis of La nuit de Calama

«La nuit de Calama» is a novel by Claude Michelet, published by Robert Laffont in 1994, in paperback (246 pages, in French).

Christian Leyrac, a French journalist detained in Calama under Pinochet's Chile, recalls his investigation into his father, who died in Dachau in 1944 and whom he never knew. His mother's ambiguous words about that death lead him to reconstruct his father's life; his Chilean confinement resonates with that fate and helps him understand himself.

Fourth installment of Claude Michelet's «Saga des Leyrac». The cover bears the subtitle «roman».

For readers with a command of French interested in Claude Michelet's rural family sagas and, in particular, the «Saga des Leyrac».