Title : The Five Girls of Grand-Barrail - Geneviève Callerot - book

Summary :

The Minauds have been sharecroppers in Grand-Barrail for generations. Juanna moved there in 1911, after her marriage to Alexandre. She gave him five daughters: Lucile, Valentine, Renée, Yvette, and Yolande. Gassed during the war, Alexandre died in 1927, the morning of the birth of Guynemer, the long-awaited son... The family broke up. Five stories, each related to one of the daughters, retrace the life of this family. These chronicles can be read as independent short stories, however, Geneviève Callerot knows how to gradually distill new information, and each story reveals a little more about the others, skillfully weaving together the Minauds' destiny. She thus provides us with a true document on the country, the work, and the days, through the destiny of each of the five daughters and traps her reader in a star-shaped plot, establishing herself as a true novelist. "Around five o'clock, Lucile would kiss her world goodbye and go back up to her home, which was, for the young woman, more beautiful than all the palaces of kings. She would rekindle the fire and make her little supper while looking after her rabbits, bringing in her laundry, inspecting her garden, watering it if necessary. At nightfall, Emile would come home. [...] They would both have supper, happy as anyone."

• EAN : 9782844944818
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