Wendy Delorme

Le chant de la rivière

April 3, 2024
Novel
104 pages
130 × 210 mm
16 €
9782366248739
978-2-3662-4873-9

“Sorcières” collection

																Wendy Delorme, Le chant de la rivière
																Wendy Delorme, Le chant de la rivière

To fully dedicate herself to writing her novel, a young writer moves temporarily to her trans partner’s family home in the Alps, on the French-Italian border. The calm she finds there is all the more necessary as she also waits to find out if she is pregnant…

In parallel, the nearest river, long since buried by men but still flowing under the house, speaks up to tell the story of a tragic love between two young girls a century ago.

Two love stories outside of norms are presented alternately, before finally intersecting. With her narrative talent and powerful evocative power, Wendy Delorme immerses us in a deeply inhabited story, where houses retain the memory of past lives and where the elements—water, wind, trees, and stones—become fully fledged characters.

The author

Writer, performer, Wendy Delorme has published Fourth Generation (novel, Grasset, 2007), the collection Insurrection! En territoire sexuel (Au Diable Vauvert, 2009), La Mère, la Sainte et la Putain (novel, Au Diable Vauvert, 2012), Le corps est une chimère (novel, Au Diable Vauvert, Prix Joseph 2018). Since 2011, she has been organizing the reading events “Il faut qu’on parle” with the writer Isabelle Sorente, a member of the autriX RER Q collective, she is also a university teacher-researcher.

Strong points

After the success of Viendra le temps du feu and L’Évaporée, written with Fanny Chiarello, a 2nd novel by Wendy Delorme in the Sorcières collection.

Two stories of unconventional love, both deeply moving, that invite us to broaden the definitions and possibilities of love relationships.

A powerful, embodied novel that gives life and voice in equal measure to humans and the surrounding natural elements, which respond to each other over the course of a century.

April 3, 2024
Novel
104 pages
130 × 210 mm
16 €
9782366248739
978-2-3662-4873-9

“Sorcières” collection