by Brigitte Giraud · Stock · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234063464
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«Une année étrangère» is the novel by Brigitte Giraud, published by Stock in paperback (207 pages, in French).
Laura, seventeen, travels to Germany as an au pair and discovers her German is less solid than she thought. The family hosting her, a couple with two children, disconcerts her. Between childcare, chores and language, Laura seeks to fill the silences of her adolescence and confront the mysteries of origins and transmission.
Originally published in 2009, the work belongs to Stock's La Bleue collection.
For readers of contemporary French fiction interested in coming-of-age novels and a teenager's view of an unfamiliar culture.
Brigitte Giraud is a French writer, author of novels and short stories. She was awarded the 2022 Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel Vivre vite.
