by Gérard Mordillat · Calmann-Lévy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702136423
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«L'attraction universelle» is the novel by Gérard Mordillat, published by Calmann-Lévy in paperback (287 pages, in French).
Bijou, a boarder in a Denain guesthouse, heads south with his parents because his father has found work at a refinery. Family life is not the expected paradise: the strike and the father's struggle leave Bijou alone with his mother, in a tense coexistence. A story about family, work and disillusionment.
The novel was originally published in 1990 and reissued in 2006; Gérard Mordillat is also a filmmaker.
For readers of French social fiction and for followers of Les Vivants et les Morts, the other novel by Gérard Mordillat.
