by Anne Hébert · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020062435
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«Les Fous de Bassan» is the mystery novel by Anne Hébert, published by Seuil in paperback (256 pages, in French).
In the summer of 1936, two teenage cousins, Nora and Olivia Atkins, disappear in Griffin Creek, a village in Gaspésie (Canada). Diaries, unfinished confessions, letters and book extracts form a polyphonic narrative about the loss of innocence, obsession, madness and the weight of the past in a community marked by secrets.
Winner of the Prix Femina in 1982. It was originally published on September 1, 1982 in the Cadre rouge collection by Seuil.
A classic of Francophone literature, present in school reading lists and suitable for those seeking literary fiction with a mystery atmosphere.
Anne Hébert, was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
