by François Weyergans · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246545910
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«Trois jours chez ma mère» is the novel by French writer François Weyergans, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (270 pages, in French).
A disturbed man protects himself night after night by evoking travels and loves that obsess him. His memory makes him dizzy and he invents doubles with turbulent sentimental lives. He wants to visit his mother, who lives alone in Provence and is around ninety, but first he must finish a job; she suggests he publish a book.
It won the Prix Goncourt in 2005. The cover includes the mention «Prix Goncourt» and the subtitle «roman».
The novel will appeal to readers of contemporary French literary fiction and to those who follow works awarded the Goncourt.
François Weyergans was a Belgian writer and director. His father, Franz Weyergans, was a Belgian and also a writer, while his mother was from Avignon in France. François Weyergans was elected to the Académie française on 26 March 2009, taking the 32nd seat which became vacant with the death of Alain Robbe-Grillet in 2008.
