Title : Constance and the Winter City - Alain Dubos - book

Summary :

Spring 1900, in the Landes and Gironde regions. Alain Dubos constructs a novel about absence, guilt, and childhood wounds, centered around the tumultuous reunion between a father and his daughter, against the magical backdrop of the Arcachon Bay.

After thirteen years of adventure in the Colonies, Captain-Medic Rémi Darrast returns home to the "family fortress" of Arcachon. There, he finds an aging and hostile family. Above all, he goes to meet his daughter, Constance. At fifteen, she is an unpredictable and solitary child, marked by the pain of abandonment. The sandy scenery of the Gironde "little sea," the affection of the fishermen and the oyster farm workers are the only comforts for the "little fairy of the riparian zones." In the wild or falsely peaceful world of the Bassin, Constance shelters her orphaned grief and her heavy childhood secrets.
With her and Leopoldine, a pianist with whom he has fallen in love, Rémi will experience the most perilous of his adventures, that of a father trying to reconnect the threads of lives put on hold for too long.

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