by Marie Chaix · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702118092
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«Le fils de Marthe» is the novel by Marie Chaix, published by Calmann-Lévy in paperback (235 pages, in French).
Marthe, a divorced doctor who has brought up her son alone, sees her life collapse when he dies in an accident. Withdrawn in her grief, hostile to consolation and to patients, the novel follows her long mourning, with Grenoble and its mountains as a backdrop: the portrait of a strong-willed, vulnerable and passionate woman.
The work was published in 1990; the ISBN-10 is 2702118097 and the OCLC identifier for the edition is 22472977.
For readers of French literary fiction who appreciate psychological portraits and stories about grief.
Marie Chaix is a French writer. She has written memoirs and a book about the singer Barbara. Her memoirs are about her mother and father as well as her life. Her book The Laurels of Lake Constance won the Prix Maison de la Presse in 1974.
