by Florence Seyvos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782757845202
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«Le garçon incassable» is the novel by Florence Seyvos, published by Points in paperback (188 pages, in French).
A narrator travels to Hollywood to research Buster Keaton, and the work awakens the memory of Henri, her «different» brother, whose mental development stopped. The novel interweaves Henri's childhood, subjected to muscular re-education, with that of Keaton, son of acrobats, insensitive to pain and star of a music-hall act.
Winner of the Prix Renaudot du livre de poche (2014) and the Prix du Meilleur Roman des Lecteurs de France (2015).
For readers of contemporary French fiction and for those interested in sibling relationships, disability, and Buster Keaton's cinema.
Florence Seyvos is a French novelist, and screenwriter. Her films have been successful in French and in English.
