by Patrick Cauvin · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226077134
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«Villa Vanille» is a historical novel by Patrick Cauvin, published by Albin Michel (440 pages, in French).
Set in Madagascar before and during the 1947 insurrection, the novel follows the French proprietors of the Villa Vanille and Palembang estates, at the foot of the Ankaratra massif. The revolt breaks their colonial paradise and drags a group of men and women into a whirlwind of passions, hatreds and violence.
Originally published in 1995. Patrick Cauvin is the pen name of Claude Klotz (1932-2010).
For readers of historical novels and fiction about French colonialism and twentieth-century Madagascar.
Claude Klotz, better known by his pen name Patrick Cauvin, was a French teacher turned writer. He was born in Marseille and died in Paris.
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