by Claude Pujade-Renaud · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742708697
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«La nuit, la neige» is the historical novel by Claude Pujade-Renaud, published by Actes Sud in paperback (458 pages, in French).
In December 1714, Anne-Marie des Ursins, lady-in-waiting to Philip V of Spain, goes to receive Isabel de Farnese, the king's future wife; the interview ends in banishment. Years later, both women revisit that snowy night and their accounts interweave decades of struggles between Habsburgs and Bourbons, alliances and palace intrigues.
It belongs to the «Domaine français» collection from Actes Sud. Originally published in 1996, this paperback edition has 458 pages.
For readers of historical fiction and French literary fiction, especially those seeking stories about women and power.
Claude Pujade-Renaud was a French writer, whose first novel Le Ventriloque appeared in 1978. She subsequently published over twenty novels, short-story and poetry collections, as well as combined creative works with long-time partner Daniel Zimmermann. She won the prix Goncourt des lycéens in 1994 for Belle mère, her novel on being a stepmother, and was a recipient of the French Writer's Guild Prize for her life's work.
