by Didier van Cauwelaert · Albin Michel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226453464
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«La vie absolue» is the novel by Didier van Cauwelaert, published by Albin Michel in paperback (272 pages, in French).
Twenty-five years after «La vie interdite», Didier van Cauwelaert returns to his character Jacques Lormeau. Dead at 34, the former hardware store owner is exhumed by court order during a paternity investigation, and his spirit returns to observe the passions, lies and pettiness of a small provincial town. Jacques tries to help a broken young woman who wishes to be his daughter, while wondering whether someone who no longer belongs to this world can still change it.
Novel published by Albin Michel in 2023. Its author won the Goncourt Prize in 1994.
For readers of French novels with humour and posthumous journeys.
Didier Van Cauwelaert is a French author and director of Belgian descent who was born in Nice. In 1994 his novel Un Aller simple won the Prix Goncourt.
