Hélène Gaudy

Plein hiver

August 1, 2019
Novel
208 pages
110 × 176 mm
8,30 €
9782330124939
978-2-3301-2493-9

collection « Babel »

																Hélène Gaudy, Plein hiver
																Hélène Gaudy, Plein hiver

On a frosty dawn, a young man appears, alone, on the road to Lisbon, in the northern United States. Immediately, a rumor began to spread through the city streets: David Horn had returned.

Four years earlier, the fourteen-year-old boy hadn’t returned from a night out like any other, during which he and his gang had angrily circumnavigated a narrow universe circumscribed by mountains, pale skies and a tiny river. His return upsets the balance of a community welded around his absence, redrawing the contours of a fictional town where we gradually penetrate the mystery of the characters.

Can the one who returns be the same as the one who left? Hélène Gaudy writes a feverish novel about the passage of time and dreams bigger than America, about necessary estrangement and the misunderstanding of those we love, a novel as troubled as childhood wounds, which traces the map of adolescence in suspense.

The author

Hélène Gaudy was born in 1979. After training in the plastic arts, she worked on a number of projects involving images and landscapes. She has published several novels, including Vues sur la mer (Les Impressions nouvelles, 2006), Plein hiver (Actes Sud, 2014) and Une île, une forteresse (Inculte, 2016). She is a member of the Inculte collective and the editorial board of La Moitié du fourbi magazine. Her latest novel, Un monde sans rivage (Actes Sud), based on the lacunar photographs of lost polar explorers, was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and won SCAM’s Prix François Billetdoux in 2019. She teaches in the Master de Création littéraire program at Paris 8.

August 1, 2019
Novel
208 pages
110 × 176 mm
8,30 €
9782330124939
978-2-3301-2493-9

collection « Babel »