by Pierre Péju · Neri Pozza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788873059813
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«La piccola Chartreuse» is the novel by Pierre Péju, published by Neri Pozza in paperback (167 pages, in Italian).
Little Éva, who every afternoon doubts recognizing her mother at school pickup, is run over by the bookseller Etienne Vollard's van and falls into a coma. Vollard tries to wake her by telling her about the books he has read and the words that have helped him, in a novel about the power of words against death and silence.
Originally published in French as «La Petite chartreuse» (2002), the work won the Prix du Livre Inter in 2003. Italian translation by Riccardo Fedriga.
A novel for readers of contemporary fiction and stories about the bond between childhood, books, and words.
Pierre Péju is a French philosopher, novelist and essayist. Born in Lyon, he studied at the Sorbonne. He has published a number of works in different literary genres, the best-known of which are two prize-winning novels Le rire de l’ogre and La petite Chartreuse. Both titles are studied in French schools and lycees, and both have been translated into English, the former by Euan Cameron and the latter by Ina Rilke.
