by Véronique Ovaldé · J'AI LU · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782290041925
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«Des vies d'oiseaux» is the novel by Véronique Ovaldé, published by J'ai lu in paperback (256 pages, in French).
Paloma suddenly leaves the family home, and her mother, Vida Izzara, believes she ran off with a lover; then she realizes Paloma was also fleeing from her. The search takes Vida Izzara back to her childhood and the most intimate corners of her memory. Four characters with intersecting paths experience the freedom of living, like birds rehearsing another life.
The novel was originally published in 2011; the J'ai lu edition is from 2013.
A novel for readers of contemporary French fiction seeking stories about family bonds, memory, and freedom.
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.
