by Anne Wiazemsky · GALLIMARD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070746767
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«Une poignée de gens» is the novel by Anne Wiazemsky, published by Gallimard in paperback (256 pages, in French).
The story begins when Vania, a peasant, dies of a heart attack surrounded by children. Those children grow up in exile with other nationalities, such as French or American, and almost none return to Russia. The novel reflects on identity, uprootedness and human bonds that cross borders.
It is part of the Famille Belgorodsky series, of which it is the first instalment. In 1998 it won the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française and the Prix Renaudot des lycéens.
For a general audience: readers of contemporary French fiction interested in exile and identity.
Anne Wiazemsky was a German-born French actress and novelist of Russian ancestry. She made her cinema debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar (1966). A year later she married the director Jean-Luc Godard and appeared in several of his films, including La Chinoise (1967), Week End (1967), and One Plus One (1968).
