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La Femme promise

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Normalement, voir débarquer un homme en tenue de plongeur sous-marin dans une gendarmerie de Basse-Normandie inciterait à la méfiance. Seulement voilà, la normalité, le plongeur qui a tout perdu et la jeune femme venue déposer plainte pour le cambriolage de sa demeure en ont visiblement fait le tour. Que le sort se soit ainsi acharné sur eux, c'est sans doute à leurs yeux un signal d'alerte, l'occasion d'affronter enfin les ombres du passé. Le passé, pour Daniel, chercheur en physique nucléaire, c'est une enfance orpheline, entre un réparateur de cycles mutique et une grand-mère comateuse. Pour Mariana, artiste plasticienne, c'est un désir de création dont elle semble aujourd'hui douter. Mais il y a l'éblouissement de la rencontre. Mais il y a l'auteur à qui cette même Mariana aurait demandé quelques lignes pour sa prochaine exposition.

399 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 15, 2009

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Jean Rouaud

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Jean Rouaud (born December 13, 1952) is a French author, who was born in Campbon, Loire-Atlantique. In 1990 his novel Fields of Glory (French: Les Champs d'honneur) won the Prix Goncourt. First believed to be the first book in a trilogy, Fields of Glory turned out to be the first book in a series of five books on the family history of the author. In 2009 he published the novel La femme promise.

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May 18, 2012
This is one of the few books that I cannot bring myself to finish. I gave up on page 125 out of 400. So
far, almost nothing has happened. That, by itself is not necessarily bad but the endless
descriptions are mostly both boring and pretentious. A particularly annoying feature is that the
author intervenes frequently with even more pretentious comments, even linking paragraphs to earlier
books by him. Still, I got one nice quotation out of it (page 117):

I n'est pas toujours évident, lors de la visite d'une exposition d'art
contemporain, de distinguer un carton repli de produits d'entretien,
oublié pur la femme de ménage, d'une création d'artiste.



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87 reviews13 followers
February 28, 2011
a man and a woman meet in a police station. the man is wearing everything he owns: a diving suit, the woman got robbed too. it's a good start of a love story. this book is written well, but i had trouble keeping the author's fantasy and the character's reality apart. there were also quite a few sentences that just didn't make sense. that may have been the translator's fault.
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66 reviews1 follower
January 29, 2018
Très belle histoire d'amour, peu commune. Où il est question de dessins paléolithiques, d'un homme grenouille, de sculpture et des traces d'une enfance malheureuse et d'un secret de famille révélé dans un tableau.
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