by Roberto Alajmo · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782743614348
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«Un cœur de mère» is Roberto Alajmo's novel, published by Éditions Payot & Rivages in paperback (211 pages, in French).
In Calcara, an imaginary village in inland Sicily, Cosimo Tumminia repairs bicycle tyres, although he barely has any customers. His only ties are his mother, from whom he has grown apart, and a kidnapped boy whom the men of the mafia have entrusted to him. The child refuses to cooperate and grows weaker as the days pass.
The novel was originally published in Italian as «Cuore di madre» in 2003. This French translation is by Danièle Valin. The work won the Premio Mondello.
For readers of Sicilian fiction; Andrea Camilleri praised it as a metaphor for the human condition.
