by Gonzague Saint-Bris · Grasset · tapa dura · ISBN 9782246635116
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«Les Vieillards de Brighton» is the novel by Gonzague Saint-Bris, published by Grasset in hardcover (331 pages, in French).
A five-year-old French boy is placed by his parents in an old people's home in Brighton, in 1950s England. In that gothic mansion by the sea, he wanders among residents such as a cursed writer, a great lady, or a retired general and spy, trying to survive an unusual childhood. Saint-Bris draws on his own childhood.
Winner of the Prix Interallié 2002. The edition described is the one published by Grasset on April 30, 2002.
For those who read French and are interested in autobiographical stories set in twentieth-century England.
