Title : The Sun of the Scorta - Laurent Gaudé - book

Summary :

Eugène Dabit Prize 2004 - Prix Goncourt 2004

Because rape founded their lineage, the Scortas were born into disgrace. In Montepuccio, their small village in southern Italy, they live poorly and will not die rich. But they have vowed to pass on, from generation to generation, the little that life leaves them as an inheritance. And aside from the modest family tobacco shop, created with what they call "New York money," their wealth is as intangible as an experience, a memory, a shred of wisdom, a spark of joy. Or even a secret. Like the one that old Carmela—whose voice here joins the objective chronicle of events—confides to her contemporary, the former priest of Montepuccio, for fear that words would soon fail her.
A radiant, deeply humanist novel, Laurent Gaudé's new book depicts, from 1870 to the present day, the existence of this Puglian family to which each generation, each individual, tries to bring, according to its own destiny, the pride of being a Scorta, and the revelation of happiness.

• EAN : 9782742751419
  
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