by Alan Hollinghurst · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253020424
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«L'Enfant de l'étranger» is the novel by Alan Hollinghurst, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (764 pages, in French).
In 1913, George Sawle invites his Cambridge friend, the aristocrat Cecil Valance, to the family home. That visit and the poem Cecil writes there will mark George and, above all, his sister Daphné. A secret pact among the three, in the spring before World War I, opens a chronicle that spans the twentieth century.
French translation by Bernard Turle. The work, originally published in English as «The Stranger's Child» in 2011, received the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in 2013.
For readers of literary fiction and British historical fiction, with LGBTQ storylines and a setting that crosses the twentieth century.
Sir Alan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2004, he won the Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his seven novels since 1988.
