by Yann Queffélec · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422621867
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«Las bodas bárbaras» is the novel by French writer Yann Queffélec, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (215 pages, in Spanish).
Ludo is born of a rape and spends his early years in the attic of his grandparents' house. His mother, Nicole, never comes to accept him, while his grandmother humiliates and torments him. Nicole's marriage to the kind-hearted Micho brings some relief, but family wounds continue to mark the child's childhood.
Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1985; this Spanish edition was published in 1987. Original title: Les Noces barbares.
For readers of contemporary fiction and family dramas, with a tragic atmosphere and characters marked by rejection.
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.
