by Pierre Magnan · Editions Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070388875
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«La Naine» is the coming-of-age novel by Pierre Magnan, published by Editions Flammarion in paperback (339 pages, in French).
Set in a small agricultural town in Provence in the 1920s, it tells of the summer when Jean, a fourteen-year-old printer's apprentice, awakens the unrequited love of a dwarf, a figure despised and feared. Chronicle of a burning summer and sentimental education, tender and painful.
The work originally appeared in 1987; the present paperback edition was published on 13 April 1994.
For readers of coming-of-age novels and Provençal narrative, with a story of unrequited love and the community's gaze on what is different.
Pierre Magnan was a French crime fiction writer.
