Brigitte Giraud
Brigitte Giraud est née en Algérie et vit à Lyon. Elle a publié huit livres aux éditions Stock dont L’amour est très surestimé, prix Goncourt de la nouvelle 2007, Une année étra...
NOUS SERONS DES HEROS
Auteur
Parution :
19/08/2015
Collection :
La Bleue
WE WILL BE HEROES
Under option in Germany and Spain
It’s the early 70s, and Olivio and his mother have just fled the Portuguese dictatorship. They set up home in a suburb of Lyon and soon move in with Max, who has come back to France from the newly independent Algeria; they all hope to make a fresh start. Max struggles to accept the teenage Olivio, but Olivio befriends Ahmed, an Algerian immigrant his own age who offers him tenderness and comfort, despite the dangerous games he subjects him to. And despite insinuations made by Max who disapproves of how close the two boys are growing.
As the Portuguese revolution draws near, and a return home is mooted, the struggle between light and stifled violence that crackles through the text is exacerbated, and the confrontation between the different characters’ fates becomes irreparable. Olivio must emerge from the shadow of a father who died a hero in a Salazar jail, confront this absent but all-pervasive figure, and become a man.
Brigitte Giraud was born in Algeria and lives in Lyon. She has had eight books published by Stock, including L’amour est très surestimé, (winner of 2007 Prix Goncourt for a novella), Une année étrangère (2009) and Avoir un corps (2013).
Under option in Germany and Spain
It’s the early 70s, and Olivio and his mother have just fled the Portuguese dictatorship. They set up home in a suburb of Lyon and soon move in with Max, who has come back to France from the newly independent Algeria; they all hope to make a fresh start. Max struggles to accept the teenage Olivio, but Olivio befriends Ahmed, an Algerian immigrant his own age who offers him tenderness and comfort, despite the dangerous games he subjects him to. And despite insinuations made by Max who disapproves of how close the two boys are growing.
As the Portuguese revolution draws near, and a return home is mooted, the struggle between light and stifled violence that crackles through the text is exacerbated, and the confrontation between the different characters’ fates becomes irreparable. Olivio must emerge from the shadow of a father who died a hero in a Salazar jail, confront this absent but all-pervasive figure, and become a man.
Brigitte Giraud was born in Algeria and lives in Lyon. She has had eight books published by Stock, including L’amour est très surestimé, (winner of 2007 Prix Goncourt for a novella), Une année étrangère (2009) and Avoir un corps (2013).
« Les nuits où je ne dormais pas, j’ouvrais le velux et je m’installais sur le toit, j’étais le seul dans la cité à jouir de ce privilège, passer la nuit à la belle étoile, dans le plus grand secret. Le ciel était-il le même ici qu’au Portugal, les constellations étaient-elles visibles depuis la lucarne de la prison de Peniche où mon père avait été enfermé ? »
En ce début des années soixante-dix, Olivio et sa mère viennent de fuir la dictature portugaise. Ils s’installent dans une banlieue lyonnaise et emménagent bientôt chez Max, un rapatrié d’Algérie, avec qui ils espèrent un nouveau départ. Alors que Max accepte mal l’adolescent, Olivio se lie à Ahmed, un immigré algérien de son âge, auprès de qui il trouve tendresse et réconfort.
198 pages
Format :
135 x 215 mm
EAN :
9782234077591
Prix :
19.00 €
