by Pierre Combescot · Grasset · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246435419
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«Les filles du Calvaire» is the novel by French writer Pierre Combescot, published by Grasset in paperback (427 pages, in French).
The novel follows Madame Maud, a Jew from Tunisia, who runs a café-tabac in the Parisian district of Filles-du-Calvaire. Around her move circus artists, pimps, prostitutes, rabbis, butchers and police officers, in a story that combines brothel life and collaboration during the German occupation.
The work was originally published in 1991 and was recognised that same year with the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens.
For readers of French literary fiction and novels set in working-class Paris during the occupation.
Pierre Combescot was a French journalist and writer. He worked for the Canard Enchaîné, under the pseudonym Luc Décygnes. He was also a columnist in Paris Match.
