by Jacques Duquesne · Grasset · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724241020
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«Au début d'un bel été» is the novel by Jacques Duquesne, published by Grasset in hardback (240 pages, in French).
Jérôme, thirteen years old, lives with an absent father and takes refuge in Gavroche, his imaginary friend, a symbol of freedom. Faced with a thief, he reacts by drawing inspiration from him and disappears. His distress signal reaches Brendalyne, his age, and Fiacre, five years old, also abandoned; together they form a peculiar family in search of a new balance.
Novel originally published in 1988; the cover bears the subtitle «roman» and the text is in French.
A read for those seeking French fiction and stories about childhood, loneliness, and the search for affection.
Jacques Duquesne was a French journalist and writer.
