by Yann Queffélec · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070378562
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«Les Noces Barbares» is the novel by Yann Queffélec, published by Gallimard in paperback format (352 pages, in French).
Ludovic, Nicole's unwanted son, spends his early years confined in an attic. Sent to an institution despite not having the disability attributed to him, he thinks only of winning back his mother. He runs away on Christmas Eve to a ship stranded on the Bordeaux coast and writes her unanswered letters as a decisive reunion approaches.
The novel won the Prix Goncourt in 1985. Originally published that year, this paperback edition belongs to the Folio collection (no. 1856).
For readers of contemporary French fiction and dramatic stories about childhood and the mother-child relationship.
Yann Queffélec is a French author who won the Prix Goncourt in 1985 for his novel Les Noces barbares, translated into English as The Wedding or The Savage Wedding. He is the former husband of the late pianist Brigitte Engerer and the brother of musician Anne Queffélec. Their father was the writer Henri Queffélec.
