by Jacques Duquesne · Bernard Grasset · Unknown Binding · ISBN 9782246404217
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«Au début d'un bel été» is the novel by Jacques Duquesne, published by Bernard Grasset, 271 pages, in French.
Jérôme, thirteen, has an absent mother and an exhausted father; his only friend is Gavroche, a free child. After a thief breaks in, Jérôme disappears without explanation. Brendalyne and Fiacre, also abandoned, search for him with the cat Zaratustra; beneath its tenderness, the novel hides the violence of a society that no longer knows how to love.
Published in 1988. The cover bears the subtitle «roman» and an illustration of an urban street with two walkers, a dog, and a column.
For readers of French fiction interested in portraits of childhood, solitude, and human relationships.
Jacques Duquesne was a French journalist and writer.
