by Yann Queffélec · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070702329
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«Les noces barbares» is the novel by Yann Queffélec, published by Folio in paperback (308 pages, in French).
Ludo, a child born of an unwanted union, grows up rejected and mistreated by his mother and grandparents. Locked in an institution, he cannot stop dreaming of her, whom he adores and fears. One Christmas night he runs away and takes refuge in a ship run aground on the Bordeaux coast, where he writes letters that go unanswered and awaits a final encounter.
«Les noces barbares» was Yann Queffélec's second novel and won the Prix Goncourt in 1985. The original edition was published by Gallimard.
For readers of contemporary French fiction and family dramas with a tragic tone, interested in maternal bonds.
Yann Queffélec is a French author who won the Prix Goncourt in 1985 for his novel Les Noces barbares, translated into English as The Wedding or The Savage Wedding. He is the former husband of the late pianist Brigitte Engerer and the brother of musician Anne Queffélec. Their father was the writer Henri Queffélec.
