by Christian Signol · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253152620
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«Les Noëls blancs» is the novel by Christian Signol, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (446 pages, in French).
François, Mathieu and Lucie Barthélémy grow up in a mountainous area between Corrèze and Puy-de-Dôme, with harsh winters. Their parents, Auguste and Élise, work land that is not their own. At twelve, François leaves school to become a farmhand; after their father dies, Lucie takes a job as a domestic servant and Mathieu leaves for Algeria, in the mid-twentieth century.
Published in 2002, it is the first instalment of the saga «Ce que vivent les hommes», which follows the Barthélémy family from 1900 to 2000.
For readers of contemporary fiction and rural family sagas, with an interest in twentieth-century French literature.
