by Yann Queffélec · France loisirs · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724229561
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«Les Noces barbares» is the dramatic novel by Yann Queffélec, published by France Loisirs in hardcover (274 pages, in French).
Ludo is born of rape and spends his first seven years in his grandparents' attic. His mother, Nicole, barely a child herself, cannot accept him, while the imperious grandmother humiliates her daughter and torments the boy. Nicole's marriage to the kind-hearted Micho brings only temporary relief to a childhood marked by rejection.
Novel winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1985, originally published in French.
For readers of contemporary French fiction and dramas about childhood and family relationships.
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.
