Brunet Summer of Reckoning

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-912242-45-0
Verlag: Bitter Lemon Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

A psychological thriller set in the Luberon, a French region that evokes holidays in magnificent pool-adorned villas. For those who live there year-round, it often means stifling poverty and boredom. Sixteen-year-old Céline and her sister Jo, fifteen, dream of escaping to somewhere far from their daily routine, far from their surly, alcoholic father and uncaring mother, both struggling to make ends meet. That summer Celine falls pregnant, devastating news that reopens deep family wounds. Those of the mother Severine whose adolescence was destroyed by her early pregnancy and subsequent marriage with Manuel. Those of the father Manuel, grandson of Spanish immigrants, who takes refuge in alcoholism to escape the open disdain of his in-laws. Faced with Celine's refusal to name the father of her child, Manuel needs a guilty party and Saïd, a friend of the girls from an Arab family, fits Manuel's bigoted racial stereotype. In the suffocating heat of summer he embarks on a drunken mission of revenge.

Marion Brunet, born in 1976, is a well known Young Adult author in France. Her YA novels have received over 30 prizes, including the 2017 UNICEF Prize for Youth Literature. Marion has previously worked as a special needs educator and now writes her fiction in Marseille. Summer of Reckoning is her first novel aimed at adults and her first work to be translated into English. It won the Grand Prix de la Literature Policiere in 2018.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brunet, Marion

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gregor, Katherine