by Yann Queffélec · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266034173
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«La femme sous l’horizon» is the novel by Yann Queffélec, published by Presses Pocket in paperback (246 pages, in French).
The story follows Ilinka, nicknamed Tita, a young woman of Russian origin who grows up in a family of exiles in Lorraine. She survives an accident as a child in which her mother dies and bears a scar; to escape the tragic fate the tarot cards foretell for her, she seeks the truth about her origins among an authoritarian grandmother, a seductive uncle and a tormented father.
The work was originally published in 1988; this Presses Pocket edition appeared in 1990.
For readers of contemporary French novels interested in family sagas, secrets and destinies marked by tragedy.
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.
