by Yann Queffélec · Robert Laffont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702841488
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«Osmose» is the novel by Yann Queffélec, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (280 pages, in French).
Pierre, a teenager, arrives as a prisoner at the Désertas penitentiary, a volcanic islet erased from the maps. Forced by his fellow inmates to explain his crime, he unfolds the memory that has led him there: his parents' self-destructive love, his stepfather's alcoholic madness, and his mother's abandonment.
The novel was originally released in August 2000; the record classifies it under Literature and Fiction.
Aimed at readers of literary fiction and contemporary French narrative, interested in stories with a psychological and familial tone.
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.
