by Christian Laborie · Editions De Borée · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782844944849
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«Le Chemin des larmes» is the historical novel by Christian Laborie, published by Editions De Borée in paperback (544 pages, in French).
Ruben, raised in a Huguenot family in the Cévennes, dreams of railways. After Marie's rejection, he enlists as a worker on the line that will link Auvergne with the Cévennes. Among engineers and local and foreign workers, he discovers the harshness of the trade, danger and political unrest, and must mature through losses and sacrifices.
Originally published on February 9, 2007, it is part of the Terre de poche collection.
For readers of historical fiction and French rural tales interested in railway construction and the nineteenth-century working world.
