by Didier Decoin · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020129251
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«La femme de chambre du Titanic» is the novel by Didier Decoin, published by Seuil in paperback (330 pages, in French).
In 1912, Horty, a 52-year-old docker, is fascinated by Marie Diotret, a young chambermaid on the transatlantic liner Titanic. His desire becomes an almost imaginary love story, marked by social difference and fate. The novel portrays the port world with its workers, emigrants and marginal characters.
Originally published in 1991, it bears the subtitle «roman» on the cover; in English it has been circulated as «The Titanic Chambermaid».
For readers of period love novels and social drama, with a port atmosphere and marginal characters.
Didier Decoin is a French screenwriter and writer awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1977.
