by Nancy Huston · J'ai lu · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782290036914
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«Lignes de faille» is the novel by Nancy Huston, published by J'ai lu in paperback (381 pages, in French).
Four six-year-old children, each the parent of the previous one, tell in reverse order the story of a family: from the Californian boy of the twenty-first century to the German girl of the 1940s. Between San Francisco, Munich, Haifa, Toronto and New York, the novel shows how inherited secrets, traumas and conflicts mark each generation, and sets memory, fidelity and music against barbarism.
The novel was originally published in 2006, won the Prix Femina and was a finalist for the Orange Prize in 2008. The French edition was released on August 24, 2011.
For book clubs and for readers of contemporary and historical fiction interested in the weight of the past and family memory.
Nancy Louise Huston is a Canadian novelist and essayist, a longtime resident of France, who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.
