by Pierre Peju · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070775446
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«Le rire de l'ogre» is the novel by Pierre Péju, published by Gallimard in 2005 in paperback (307 pages, in French).
In rural Germany of the 1960s, a French teenager meets the daughter of a former Wehrmacht doctor; a friendship marked by the silent wounds of war develops between them. Years later, now a photographer and a sculptor, their paths cross again, while other characters embody the contradictions of the century.
The novel, published in Gallimard's nrf collection, won the Prix du roman Fnac in 2005.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary French narrative who explore the aftermath of war.
Pierre Péju is a French philosopher, novelist and essayist. Born in Lyon, he studied at the Sorbonne. He has published a number of works in different literary genres, the best-known of which are two prize-winning novels Le rire de l’ogre and La petite Chartreuse. Both titles are studied in French schools and lycees, and both have been translated into English, the former by Euan Cameron and the latter by Ina Rilke.
