by Elisabeth Gille · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020189101
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«Un paysage de cendres» is the novel by Elisabeth Gille, published by Seuil in paperback (204 pages, in French).
Léa and Bénédicte, aged five and seven, meet at a boarding school in Bordeaux during the war. Their friendship helps them escape into a childhood world, far from adult violence, but they hide the secret of their missing parents. After the liberation, while one finds clarity, the other seeks the truth in 1950s Paris.
Published in the Cadre rouge collection; won the Grand prix des Lectrices de Elle 1997.
Aimed at readers of literary fiction interested in the Second World War and the reconstruction of childhood identity.
