by Gaelle Josse · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782882504890
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«Une longue impatience» is the novel by Gaëlle Josse, published by Noir Blanc in paperback (192 pages, in French).
In a village in Brittany, after World War II, Anne waits every day for the return of Louis, her sixteen-year-old son, who has not come home. The absence erodes the couple and the family, and the mother sustains herself by writing about the extravagant party she will give when he returns. A portrait of maternal love taken to its limit.
The novel was published in January 2018 and is catalogued as Literature and Fiction.
Its intimate tone and rural setting bring it close to readers of contemporary French fiction and stories about family and loss.
Gaelle Josse is a French poet and novelist. She has written four novels till date. She has won a number of literary prizes and her work has been translated into several languages.
