by Jennifer Johnston · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782877111621
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«Un noël blanc» is the novel by Jennifer Johnston, published by Jacqueline Chambon in paperback (214 pages, in French).
Constance left her family environment behind to travel across Europe and dream of becoming a writer, but returns to Ireland ill with leukemia, determined to die at home without treatments that would only prolong her life. While waiting for the man she writes to in order to reveal the existence of their daughter, she takes stock of her past beside the Christmas tree she has put up as a gesture of dignity.
French translation of a work originally written in English; edition published in 1997.
For readers of intimate narrative about family bonds and life decisions.
Jennifer Prudence Johnston was an Irish novelist. She won a number of awards, including the Whitbread Book Award for The Old Jest in 1979 and a Lifetime Achievement from the Irish Book Awards (2012). The Old Jest, a novel about the Irish War of Independence, was later made into a film called The Dawning, starring Anthony Hopkins, produced by Sarah Lawson and directed by Robert Knights.
