A01=Bénédicte Belpois
Author_Bénédicte Belpois
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dark love story
darkness
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French
French literary fiction
Galicia
gripping
heart-stopping
heart-wrenching
love
page turning
passion
rape
romance
set in Galicia
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9781787703261
- Dimensions: 135 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A powerful story of dysfunctional love
Tomás is a wealthy farmer, rough and taciturn, as rooted in the land as the eucalyptus trees he grows under the Galician sun. When he’s diagnosed with lung cancer, he tells no-one.
Suiza is a damaged young woman, strikingly beautiful, barely literate, a run-away. Her only dream, to see the sea.
The relationship that ensues is as passionate and tender as it is troubling and nuanced. How transformative can love really be? As happiness and the promise of healing beckon, the darkness that has been spreading underneath all along will reveal itself, bringing the narrative to a heart-stopping, heart-wrenching denouement.
Bénédicte Belpois lives in Besançon, where she works as a midwife. She spent her childhood in Algeria. Suiza, her first novel, was written during a long stay in Galicia.
Alison Anderson's translations for Europa Editions include novels by Sélim Nassib, Amélie Nothomb, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. She is the translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Europa, 2008) and The Life of the Elves (Europa, 2016) by Muriel Barbery.
