Grey Souls was another bookclub read from a meeting that unfortunately could not take place due to the COVID-19 social distancing we are currently in. This was not a book I would have picked myself, and although I once read Monsieur Linh and His Child I did not remember much about it (I looked up my...
Magnifique histoire, bouleversante en un sens, une amitié au delà des mots, des cultures, une poésie magique à chaque mots. J'ai dévoré ce livre qui m'a fait sourire, attendri, pleuré, rigolé, le tout en quelques pages. Un moment magique vraiment.
Original Title: La petite fille de Monsieur Linh This story is only about 130 pages long, this means a lot is left for the reader's imagination. Where does Monsieur Linh precisely come from? But the story is a very beautiful and subtle one, focussing on how unfitting someone can feel in a new envi...
La Petite Fille de Monsieur Linh (Monsieur Linh's Granddaughter) was published by the award winning novelist and film-maker Philippe Claudel (born 1962) in 2005. In deceptively simple language Claudel tells the story of two older men from whom life has taken more than they can bear to lose. Monsie...
bookshelves: france, published-2003, historical-fiction, spring-2010, translation, wwi, mystery-thriller Read from May 24 to June 03, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** Won the prix Renaudot award in France, was shortlisted for the American Gumshoe Award, and won Sweden's Martin Beck Award. In addition to ...
Philippe Claudel's Monsieur Linh and his child is a wonderful, original and haunting study of an an elderly refugee from an unknown war torn country. His son and daughter-in-law have died in the war and he is left to care for their only child and his grand-daughter.This a short book with only 13...
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