by Gonzague Saint Bris · tapa dura · ISBN 9782253072577
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«Les vieillards de Brighton» is the novel by Gonzague Saint Bris published in 2004 by Le Livre de Poche in paperback, in French.
A five-year-old boy, son of a French diplomat, is placed by his parents in a nursing home in Brighton. In the Gothic mansion by the sea, the boy lives among eccentric old people, such as a cursed writer and a retired military man, in a story the author presents as a memory of his own childhood.
The work won the Prix Interallié in 2002. The first edition, in hardcover, was published by Grasset in Paris that same year.
For those who read French and enjoy autobiographical novels set in England.
Gonzague Saint Bris was an award-winning French novelist, biographer, and journalist. He won the 2002 Prix Interallié for Les Vieillards de Brighton. He was the founder of La Forêt des livres, an annual book festival, and the Cabourg Film Festival. He was also a juror for the prix Contrepoint, a French literary award. With his family, he was a co-proprietor of Clos Lucé.
