by Andréa Del Fuego · Éditions de l'Aube · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782815913126
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«Les Malaquias» is the novel by Andréa Del Fuego, published by Éditions de l'Aube in paperback (221 pages, in French).
Three siblings are orphaned in the Serra Morena, southern Brazil, when lightning strikes their parents dead in their home. The eldest works on a coffee plantation, the sister is adopted in Rio de Janeiro, and the youngest, who has dwarfism, grows up in an orphanage. As adults, they try to reunite while the country evolves, between magic and reality.
«Les Malaquias» won the José Saramago Prize and is Andréa Del Fuego's first novel. The French edition, translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Cécile Lombard, was published in 2015.
For readers of literary fiction and magical realism, interested in contemporary Brazilian literature and stories of family reunion.
