by Marie-Paul Armand · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782258015883
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«La poussière des corons» is the novel by Marie-Paul Armand, published by Presses de la Cité in paperback (356 pages, in French).
Set in a coron in Pas-de-Calais in the early 20th century, the narrative follows Madeleine, daughter of a mining family, from the 1906 Courrières disaster to the 1960s. Amid accidents, firedamp explosions, wars and social conflicts, it depicts the life of the mining community and a love story.
Marie-Paul Armand's first novel, published in 1985; the original edition bears the subtitle «roman».
For readers seeking family sagas with a historical and social background in northern France.
