by Anna Gavalda · Le Dilettante · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782842631529
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«La Consolante» is the novel by Anna Gavalda, published by Le Dilettante in paperback (640 pages, in French).
Charles Balanda, a 47-year-old Parisian architect, learns of the death of a woman he knew in his childhood and adolescence. The event destabilises him: his appetite and sleep are disturbed, he abandons his plans and cannot get his life back on track. The novel follows his mourning and his attempt to understand what has broken, until he accepts that he must rebuild everything.
Originally published on 11 March 2008; it falls within literary fiction and contemporary narrative.
For readers of intimate novels about memory and ties to the past.
Anna Gavalda is a French novelist.
