by Hélène Legrais · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702143254
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«Les ailes de la tramontane» is the novel by Hélène Legrais, published by Calmann-Lévy in paperback (255 pages, in French).
In Roussillon in 1922, the heiress of a well-to-do family falls in love with an already married Spanish grape picker, a scandalous relationship that will mark the life of her son Pau. After a childhood shaken by violence and madness, the boy grows up in the care of his great-aunts and dreams of getting close to the Aéropostale pilots testing seaplanes on the Salanque lagoon. The novel portrays a territory split between the vineyard and the sea.
The work belongs to the collection «France de toujours et d'aujourd'hui» and bears the subtitle «roman».
It will appeal to readers of historical novels set in the south of France in the interwar period.
