Title: The Book of Nights - Sylvie Germain - book
Summary :
Having left the confines of land and water, Victor-Flandrin Péniel, carrying around his neck the tears of his father whose face was slashed in 1870 by an Uhlan, and always accompanied by a mysterious blond shadow, will come to settle in a hamlet lost at the end of the territory and surrounded by forests where wolves still prowl. It is in these borderlands, through which war constantly re-enters the country, and into the lives and memories of men, that Victor-Flandrin, known as Nuit-d'Or-Gueule-de-Loup, will take a wife, four times, and will produce numerous descendants, all marked by twinning and the violence of passion. Many novels today strive to show us the men and women crushed by history. But, with this story, this terrible reality is transfigured into the dimensions of the legendary, the fantastic tale.
