by Yves Navarre · H&O · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782845471900
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«Le jardin d'acclimatation» is the novel by Yves Navarre, published by H&O in paperback (469 pages, in French).
Bertrand Prouillan's life freezes at twenty, when his father, Henri, a politician, has him lobotomized to avoid a scandal. Twenty years later, on Bertrand's fortieth birthday, the family gathers and guilt, paternal authority, and the wounds of a repression that has marked them all surface.
Work awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1980; the original edition was published that year and this H&O edition, with a presentation by Sylvie Lannegrand, in 2009.
For readers of twentieth-century French fiction interested in family dramas and LGBT-themed literature.
Yves Navarre was a French writer. A gay man, most of his work concerned homosexuality and associated issues, such as AIDS. In his romantic works, Navarre was noted for his tendency to emphasize sensuality and "the mystical qualities of love" rather than sexuality or sensationalism. He was awarded the 1980 Prix Goncourt for his novel Le Jardin d'acclimatation.
