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Mysterious Solidarities
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When translator Claire Methuen travels back to her hometown of Dinard for a family wedding, she runs into her old piano teacher, Madame Ladon. After befriending the ageing woman, Methuen begins to toy with the idea of a permanent return to live in Brittany. She becomes increasingly obsessed by her childhood sweetheart, Simon Quelen, who, now married and a father, still lives in a village further down the coast where he is the local pharmacist and mayor.
Having moved into a farmhouse, she soon spends her days walking the heathland above the cliffs and spying on him as he sails in the bay. As she walks, she is at one with the land of her childhood and youth, βher skull emptying into the landscape.β When her younger brother Paul comes to join her there, the web of solidarities is further enriched.
Mysterious Solidarities is a tale of dramatic episodes, told through intermingling voices and the atmospherics of the austere Breton landscape. Ultimately, it is a story of obsessional love and of a parallel sibling bond that is equally strong.
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ISBN: 9780857427397
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 28 January 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Contributors:
- Translated by Chris Turner
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 880g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Pascal QuignardΒ is the author of more than sixty books and is widely regarded as one of the most important living writers in French.Β He has recently published the tenth volume of his celebrated Last Kingdom series. Chris TurnerΒ is a translator and writer living in Birmingham, UK. He has translated more than eighty books from French and German.
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