Title : The First Wife - Françoise Chandernagor - book

• Summary

"Divorce or separation?" When her husband uttered this little phrase in a low voice, Catherine wondered if she had heard correctly. "Divorce or separation"? How could she imagine that after twenty-five years of marriage, Francis left her no other choice? If he had never promised to be faithful (they were "modern," weren't they?), hadn't he sworn to her that she was the chosen one, the soul mate, that she would forever be the favorite—his "first wife"? They were a real couple; with their four children, a real family. They laughed together at Francis's flings, since he always came back to her and she always forgave. From whims to adventures, from adventures to affairs, and from affairs to bigamy, over the years the first wife accepted everything. When, at the age of maturity, she had to give way to a "young conquest," it wasn't a man she lost, but two-thirds of her past. From one day to the next, she is a "widow," worse than a widow, because it is a living being that she mourns, a living being who - throughout a painful breakup, a slow divorce, three years of winter and ice - will not let himself be forgotten... In this novel in which she lends her pen to the abandoned lover, Françoise Chandernagor speaks to us of marital passion and romantic failure with a restrained lyricism, a poignant emotion that is underlined by a sober and incisive style. By changing era and tone, the author of L'Allée du Roi and L'Enfant des Lumières retains this lucidity, this art of analysis, which have already transported thousands of readers.

• EAN : 9782877063333
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