Title : My Mother's Piano - Yann Queffélec - Book

Summary :

My mother sang, played the piano, and ensured everyone's happiness. My father was famous, my sister a musical prodigy, my brother Hervé a magnificently absent-minded mathematician. I myself was a persevering dunce, a friend of the poètes maudits. A piano, if not two, cooed in the house. Epinal images are beautiful, they thwart destiny..." This book traces the stormy relationship I always had with my father, the man I loved, admired, and feared the most, and who wanted to make me bend to his law. It also tells the story of the decline of the Queffélec family, contradictory people, as modest as they were pretentious, as discreet as they were arrogant. "This autobiographical story ends with the death of his mother in 1969. "She disappeared so furtively that I still wonder today when she will return. Looking back," writes Yann Queffélec, "I ask myself a question. Was my mother ever happy with us, so demanding? With this book, I go to meet her, I join her...

• EAN: 9782352872153
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