Code EAN / ISBN: 9782234056039
Code HACHETTE: 5456033
Retail price: 19,10 €
Publication date: 08/2003
Dimensions: 215 x 135 mm
Number of pages: 288
Copyright © Editions Stock, 2003
Les âmes grises
Philippe Claudel
Grand Prix littéraire des lectrices de Elle 2004
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A young girl is found murdered on the frozen banks of an ice-cold stream. It is winter, 1917, during the First World War. A time of methodical slaughter. The novel never shows it, but it’s there – a hidden, monstrous presence. Whether it is little girls who are killed or thousands of men, nothing is more tragically human. These “grey souls” are the characters of the novel, at once great and contemptible. Described with painful intensity they evolve in a society undergoing great change, with its class connivance, its cowardliness and its shame.
Philippe Claudel is the author of Les âmes grises, which was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 2003 and which is translated into thirty languages, and of La petite fille de Monsieur Linh (Stock, 2005). His novel Le rapport de Brodeck was awarded the Prix Goncourt des lycéens in 2007. Illustrated with shooting stills, Petite fabrique des rêves et des réalités includes the script of Philippe Claudel’s first film, Il y a longtemps que je t’aime, out in cinemas in France on March 19 2008, starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Elsa Zylberstein.
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