by Valentine Goby · ACTES SUD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782330066482
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«Un paquebot dans les arbres» is the novel by Valentine Goby, published by Actes Sud in paperback (272 pages, in French).
Tuberculosis takes Mathilde's parents to a sanatorium in Aincourt in 1950s France. They ran a café in La Roche-Guyon; ruined by medical costs and with their children scattered among other families, they see their dignity at risk. Mathilde tries to reunite them while the sanatorium rises like a great white ship among the trees.
Valentine Goby's twelfth novel, published in 2016.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and stories set in rural mid-20th-century France.
