by Howard Buten · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020096034
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«Monsieur Butterfly» is Howard Buten's novel, published by Editions du Seuil in paperback (249 pages, in French).
A clown and doctor of psychology without resources decides to become the adoptive father of four children labelled 'abnormal': one with schizophrenia, another with Down syndrome, a person with a physical disability and a fourth abused by his father. A tender and comic novel, the 'book of the secret heart': a generous and zany tale.
Published in 1987 with a translation from English by Jean-Pierre Carnasse. Howard Buten is also the author of «Quand j'avais cinq ans je m'ai tué».
Howard Buten was an American author living in France. He was also a psychologist, a clown, and a violin player. Buten was the author of five novels, the first of which, entitled When I Was Five I Killed Myself, was published in 1981 and turned into a film under its French title Quand j'avais cinq ans je m'ai tué in 1994.
