Title : The Brambles - Antoine Piazza - book

Summary :

In the early 1980s, a twenty-five-year-old teacher, returning from Africa, is assigned to a village in Haut Languedoc. The country is becoming deserted. The land is abandoned. Young people have left to live in the city or dream of a suburban house. The small, withdrawn community protects itself from the modern world, from the incomprehensible chaos reflected on television screens. Here, life follows the rhythm of the seasons and the opening dates of the hunting season. In remarkably precise and elegant writing, the narrator chronicles the seven years spent crisscrossing the country and meeting its inhabitants: notables, hippies, families living in isolated hamlets, a retired policeman, a failed singer, old people posted on the side of the roads... This close-up witness, irremediably foreign, paints with vibrant humanity tiny destinies, immobile lives, confronted with the passing of time and a changing world.
"Born in 1957, Antoine Piazza lives and works in Sète. He is the author of four novels published by Editions du Rouergue: Roman fleuve (1999, winner of the Millepages bookstore prize), Mougaburu (2001), Les Ronces (2006, winner of the Emile-Guillaumin prize) and La Route de Tassiga (2008)."

• EAN : 9782742776863
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