by Philippe Forest · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070129867
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«Le siècle des nuages» is the novel by Philippe Forest published by Gallimard in 2010 in paperback, with 555 pages in French.
The narrative opens with a seaplane descending over a river while a boy watches from the shore during a summer holiday. The scene, with the noise of the engines, the foam and the light of the sky, gives way to a narration that explores memory and the recollection of experience.
The cover includes the subtitle «roman» and the nrf imprint of Gallimard; suppliers describe the edition as paperback.
For readers of contemporary French fiction interested in descriptive and evocative prose.
Philippe Forest is a French author and professor of literature. He has been awarded the First Novel Prix Femina (1997) and the Prix Décembre (2004), and his works have been translated into English, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. He has taught at several Universities, including Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Saint-Andrews, and the University of Nantes.
