by Yann Queffelec · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782260005452
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«La femme sous l'horizon» is the novel by Yann Queffélec, published by Julliard in paperback in 1988 (246 pages, in French).
In Lorraine, Ilinka, called Tita, a descendant of Russian exiles, survives, as a baby, an accident in which her mother is burnt to death. Marked by a scar and announced by the tarot cards as a tragic figure, the young woman seeks the truth about her birth to escape her self-destructive family.
For readers of French fiction interested in family dramas, secrets from the past and oppressive atmospheres.
Yann Queffélec is a French author who won the Prix Goncourt in 1985 for his novel Les Noces barbares, translated into English as The Wedding or The Savage Wedding. He is the former husband of the late pianist Brigitte Engerer and the brother of musician Anne Queffélec. Their father was the writer Henri Queffélec.
