by Véronique Ovaldé · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782298030358
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«Ce que je sais de Vera Candida» is the fiction novel by Véronique Ovaldé, published by Piment in paperback (346 pages, in French).
In an imaginary South American country, Rose, Violette and Vera Candida, three women of the same lineage, seem condemned to give birth to a daughter without revealing the father's name. Each fights for her destiny. At fifteen, Vera Candida leaves the island of her childhood for Lahomeria, trying to leave the past behind and open herself to love.
Published in 2010, the work received the Prix Renaudot des lycéens 2009 and the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle 2010.
For readers of contemporary French fiction and stories about women who decide their own destiny.
Véronique Ovaldé is a French novelist. Her fifth novel Et mon cœur transparent won the Prix France Culture/Télérama in 2008. Her seventh novel Ce que je sais de Vera Candida won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens (2009), the Prix France Télévisions (2009) and the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle (2010). She has had two books translated into English by Adriana Hunter, but Ovaldé's other titles are still available for interested publishers and translators. In 2024, she published A nos vies imparfaites which received the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle.
