by Jean-Paul Malaval · n/a · tapa dura · ISBN 9782298060904
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«Les noces de soie» is the novel by Jean-Paul Malaval, published by L'harmattan in hardcover (433 pages, in French).
In the mountains of the Vivarais (Ardèche), the Andromas family raises silkworms on the Séguin estate. Théodore wants his son Silvius to continue the tradition, but the young man falls in love with Roxane, daughter of a wealthy silk merchant from Lyon, and settles in the city. There, among the silk workers, Silvius tries to carve out a place in the closed world of the traders.
Published in 2012. First installment of a series that continues with «La villa des térébinthes» and «Rendez-vous à Fontbelair».
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction interested in rural and industrial France at the end of the 19th century.
