by Louis Nucera · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246242710
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«Chemin de la lanterne» is the novel by Louis Nucera, published by B. Grasset in paperback (251 pages, in French).
The story centres on an old uncle who, after spending four years in the First World War, returns alive but finds that his fiancée, in Nice, had died waiting for him. For sixty years he remains faithful to that memory, while the novel portrays Nice, its streets and its people: the tinker Lorenzo, the schoolmaster Masséglia, the proud Lucia and the dog Nicky.
The novel was awarded the Prix Interallié in 1981. The author, Louis Nucera, was born in 1928 and the work was originally published in Paris.
For readers of twentieth-century French fiction and for those who enjoy stories of memory, war and popular life in Nice.
Louis Nucéra was an award-winning 20th-century French writer. He published his first novel L'obstiné in 1970.
