by Diane Setterfield · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266173766
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«Le treizième conte» is the gothic novel by Diane Setterfield, published by Pocket in paperback (567 pages, in French).
Vida Winter, a bestselling author who has hidden her past behind many invented lives, wants at last to tell her true story. Old and ill, she calls biographer Margaret Lea, who does not believe her tales and seeks the facts. The encounter confronts them with the ghosts of their own history.
It received the ALA Alex Award in 2007; Diane Setterfield won the Quill Award for best debut author. Original title: The Thirteenth Tale. French edition translated by Claude and Jean Demanuelli.
For readers of mystery and gothic fiction, especially those who enjoy stories about books, libraries, and family secrets.
Diane Setterfield is an English author whose 2006 debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, became a New York Times No. 1 best-seller. Setterfield won the 2007 Quill Award, debut author of the year, for the novel. It is written in the Gothic tradition, with echoes of Brontë sisters' Jane Eyre (1847) and Wuthering Heights (1847).
