Title : The Child of the Pines - Françoise Le Gloahec - book

• Summary

In the Landes region of France in 1850, poverty is overwhelming. One night, a peasant's wife abandons one of the twins she has just given birth to. The child is fragile, and the couple lacks the means to raise him.

Eaten away by the guilt of abandonment, she is unable to love the son she chose to keep. Estefe grows up in the shadow of this twin, whom her mother told her was dead. The little affection she receives comes from two neighbor boys who become a real second family.

Despite this friendship and to escape his destiny as a peasant, Estèfe tries to rebuild his life in Argentina, but he remains obsessed by the mystery surrounding his twin's death. Only a return to the forests of his childhood will allow him to understand what really happened. And as family secrets resurface, a tragedy unfolds...

• EAN : 9782824613697
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