by Lydie Salvayre · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757871768
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«Tout homme est une nuit» is the novel by Lydie Salvayre, published by POINTS in paperback (216 pages, in French).
Anas, ill with cancer, goes into exile in a village in French Provence hoping to rest. But the regulars at the Café des Sports see him as an idle intruder who has come to judge them. The distrust of some and the unease of the other feed each other until mutual fear turns into hatred.
This edition belongs to the Points collection (No. 4894). The work was originally published in 2017 and was nominated for the Prix de l'Algue d'Or in 2018.
For readers of contemporary French fiction who want to explore rejection of the foreigner, prejudice and lack of communication.
Lydie Salvayre is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist.
