by Véronique Ovaldé · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081445925
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«Personne n'a peur des gens qui sourient» is the novel by Véronique Ovaldé, published by Flammarion in paperback (267 pages, in French).
One June morning, Gloria picks up her daughters and flees with them to the Alsatian house of her childhood. Behind that flight lies a dark past: the disappearance of her father, the death of Samuel, the father of her daughters, and the role of the lawyer Santini. Ovaldé portrays a mother whose unease turns into coldness to protect her own.
The work was first published in 2019; the subtitle on the cover is «roman».
For readers of contemporary French fiction and followers of Véronique Ovaldé.
Véronique Ovaldé is a French novelist. Her fifth novel Et mon cœur transparent won the Prix France Culture/Télérama in 2008. Her seventh novel Ce que je sais de Vera Candida won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens (2009), the Prix France Télévisions (2009) and the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle (2010). She has had two books translated into English by Adriana Hunter, but Ovaldé's other titles are still available for interested publishers and translators. In 2024, she published A nos vies imparfaites which received the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle.
