by François Bégaudeau · Publicações Dom Quixote · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722036931
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«A Turma» is the novel by François Bégaudeau, published by Publicações Dom Quixote in paperback (232 pages, in Portuguese).
It depicts the daily life of a French teacher in a public secondary school in Paris, amid tragicomic situations and the challenges of expression and comprehension in a multicultural class. Inspired by the author's teaching experience, it portrays today's school and its tensions. Adapted to film by Laurent Cantet, with Bégaudeau as the lead, it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2008.
Original title: «Entre les murs» (2006). Portuguese translation by Isabel St. Aubyn.
A suitable read for those interested in education, school life, and contemporary fiction with a social backdrop.
François Bégaudeau is a French novelist and essayist. He is best known for co-writing and starring in The Class (2008), a film based on his 2006 semi-autobiographical novel Entre les murs. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009.
