Les encriers de porcelaine

Synopsis of Les encriers de porcelaine

«Les encriers de porcelaine» is the novel by Jean-Paul Malaval, published by Pocket in paperback (326 pages, in French).

Set in 1935, the narrative follows a young schoolteacher who arrives at a rural school in Corrèze determined that all her pupils, children of peasants, obtain the school certificate and embrace the values of the Republic. Her appearance and modern methods scandalize the village: the mayor and the priest, guardians of traditional morality, oppose her while the Popular Front looms.

A work of literary terroir fiction set in Limousin; published on June 21, 2018.

For readers of rural fiction and historical fiction about 1930s France.