by Alice Ferney · J'ai lu · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782290302750
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«Grâce et dénuement» is the literary fiction novel by Alice Ferney, published by J'ai lu in paperback (192 pages, in French).
A clan of gypsies lives on the margins of society in a wasteland on the outskirts of Paris, oblivious to its rules and comforts. A librarian unfamiliar with that world decides to bring them books and introduce the children to reading. From that relationship emerges a complicity that reveals the tenderness and humanity behind the misery.
It won the Culture et bibliothèques pour tous prize in 1997.
Readers of literary fiction interested in French literature and stories about the encounter between cultures.
