by Jean Rouaud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707315656
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«Les Champs d'honneur» is the novel by Jean Rouaud, published by Les Éditions de Minuit in paperback (188 pages, in French).
It all begins with the death of three of the narrator's relatives within a few weeks: his father, the latter's old aunt, and his maternal grandfather. From small clues —a set of false teeth, some photos, a print—, the narrative reconstructs the family history and leads to the First World War, the origin of the silences that mark the generations.
First installment of Jean Rouaud's family and autobiographical novel cycle. Winner of the Prix Goncourt 1990 and finalist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 1992.
For readers interested in contemporary French literature and in novels that explore family memory and the Great 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.
