by Jean Rouaud · Les Editions de Minuit · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707313478
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«Les champs d'honneur» is the novel by Jean Rouaud, published by Les Editions de Minuit in paperback (188 pages, in French).
Set in western France after the war, the novel portrays a family struck by the successive deaths of several of its members: the father, an aunt, and the grandparents. Jean Rouaud reconstructs family memory by interweaving past and present with a sober, delicate prose, in which the child's gaze crosses with that of the novelist.
«Les champs d'honneur» opens Jean Rouaud's autobiographical and family cycle. The novel won the Prix Goncourt in 1990.
For readers of contemporary French fiction and family stories marked by war.
Jean Rouaud is a French author, who was born in Campbon, Loire-Atlantique. In 1990 his novel Fields of Glory won the Prix Goncourt. First believed to be the first book in a trilogy, Fields of Glory turned out to be the first book in a series of five books on the family history of the author.
