by Yann Queffélec · btb · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442732791
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«Nellys Lachen» is the novel by Yann Queffélec, published by btb in paperback (285 pages, in German).
Pierre is six years old when his mother Nelly disappears at night; his father makes him believe she abandoned them. Distrust and longing mark his childhood, and years later the collapse of that version reopens the wound. Confined on a prison-island in Brittany, he recalls a father-son relationship made of silence and violence.
The novel was published in 2005 as a German translation by Doris Heinemann of the French original «Osmose».
For readers of psychological fiction and stories about complex family relationships; text in German.
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.
