Franck Bouysse

In this captivating Faulknerian tale of love, masculinity, and vengeance, tensions boil over in a rural mountain community whose able-bodied men have left to fight in World War I. In the heart of Cantal, in the heat of the summer of 1914, the men resigned themselves to going off to fight, far away. Joseph, just 15 years old, must take care of the family farm with his mother, his grandmother, and Leonard, an old neighbor who has become his friend. On the property next door, Valette, kept away from the war due to an atrophied hand, dwells on his grudges and his rage. And now he has to take in his brother's wife and daughter, who have sought refuge with him. The arrival of the two women will end up upsetting a hitherto immutable order and awakening buried passions.

Garri, izvestnyj pisatel, v poiskakh vdokhnovenija pokupaet nebolshoj dom vo frantsuzskoj glushi. Odinochestvo, tishina, sneg - chem ne idealnye uslovija dlja raboty nad novoj knigoj? No ochen skoro Garri ponimaet: chto-to ne tak. Bespokojstvo usilivaetsja, kogda vokrug nachinajut proiskhodit strannye veschi. Vozmozhno, vsemu vinoj sosed Kaleb, kotorogo mestnye schitajut koldunom. Da i sami zhiteli derevni vyzyvajut u Garri mnozhestvo voprosov. Im javno est chto skryvat. V novom romane Franka Buisa proshloe i nastojaschee perepletajutsja prichudlivym obrazom, zastavljaja chitatelej balansirovat na grani mezhdu vymyslom i realnostju. Uvlekatelnoe povestvovanie o khimerakh tvorchestva i pitajuschem ego bessoznatelnom.

A thrilling mix of French noir and American Western, this novel charts a family's struggle for freedom and justice in a hostile mountain community. In Black Rimstone, an isolated valley cut off from the rest of the world, there live four siblings. Three brothers and one sister, who are united by an unfailing bond: Mark, who constantly reads in secret, in defiance of his father's wishes; Matthew, who can hear trees thinking; Mabel, a wondrously savage and graceful beauty; and Luke, the tragic child, the idiot, undoubtedly the wisest of them all, who can speak to frogs, deer, and birds, and dreams of one day becoming one of them. Like their father and grandfather before them, they all work for Joyce the tyrant, the cold-blooded beast of the Quarries and the Dam. Winner of the Prix Jean Giono, Wind Drinkers is a masterful, parable-like novel about the power of nature and the promise of rebellion.

Roman "Pjuschie veter" obedinjaet elementy raznykh zhanrov. Eto odnovremenno i semejnaja drama, i vestern, i nuar. Slovno v avangardnom filme pered nami promelknut personazhi: despotichnyj otets i fanatichno religioznaja mat; glava goroda, tiran i paranoik Dzhojs; ego prispeshniki - karlik Snejk i velikan Dabl, a takzhe okhotniki na kitov, veterany Pervoj mirovoj vojny, piraty, brakonery i devushki vovse ne obraztsovogo povedenija.No prezhde vsego eto pritcha o vsepobezhdajuschej ljubvi, svjazyvajuschej trekh bratev i sestru: nepokornuju i chuvstvennuju Mabel, oderzhimogo literaturoj Marka, ponimajuschego jazyk derevev i zhivotnykh Mate i mladshego Ljuka, kotoryj voobrazhaet sebja Dzhimom Khokinsom iz "Ostrova Sokrovisch" Stivensona.

THE WORD-OF-MOUTH INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Born of No Woman proves that fiction can still amaze' Le Monde'A vivid, mesmerizing tale'L'Express'A choral novel radiating with black light'Elle Nineteenth-century rural France.Before he is called to bless the body of a woman at the nearby asylum, Father Gabriel receives a strange, troubling confession: hidden under the woman's dress he will find the notebooks in which she confided the abuses she suffered and the twisted motivations behind them.And so Rose's terrible story comes to light: sold as a teenage girl to a rich man, hidden away in a old manor house deep in the woods and caught in a perverse web, manipulated by those society considers her betters.A girl whose only escape is to capture her life - in all its devastation and hope - in the pages of her diary...THE HIT NOVEL RECOMMENDED BY FRENCH BOOKSELLERS:'The most beautiful French novel of the year''Love at first sight for a book is rare. But this novel left me speechless''Dive in: you'll come out feeling utterly alive''One of the most beautiful books I've ever read''The best book I have read for a long time''This story has something powerful, animal, carnal and terrible too. A punch in the gut'

THE WORD-OF-MOUTH INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Born of No Woman proves that fiction can still amaze' Le Monde'A vivid, mesmerizing tale'L'Express'A choral novel radiating with black light'Elle Nineteenth-century rural France.Before he is called to bless the body of a woman at the nearby asylum, Father Gabriel receives a strange, troubling confession: hidden under the woman's dress he will find the notebooks in which she confided the abuses she suffered and the twisted motivations behind them.And so Rose's terrible story comes to light: sold as a teenage girl to a rich man, hidden away in a old manor house deep in the woods and caught in a perverse web, manipulated by those society considers her betters.A girl whose only escape is to capture her life - in all its devastation and hope - in the pages of her diary...Translated from the French by Lara VergnaudTHE HIT NOVEL RECOMMENDED BY FRENCH BOOKSELLERS:'The most beautiful French novel of the year''Love at first sight for a book is rare. But this novel left me speechless''Dive in: you'll come out feeling utterly alive''One of the most beautiful books I've ever read''The best book I have read for a long time''This story has something powerful, animal, carnal and terrible too. A punch in the gut'

The Guardian Best Translated Fiction CrimeReads Best International Crime Novel of the Year In this gothic tale reminiscent of Faulkner's Light in August, a young woman's journals divulge the horrible secrets of a wealthy family in late nineteenth-century rural France. Before he is called to bless the body of a woman at the nearby asylum, Father Gabriel receives a strange, troubling confession: hidden under her dress he will find the notebooks that contain Rose's harrowing story. At fourteen years old, Rose is sold to a rich man by her father, a farmer unable to support her and her three younger sisters. Traded for a handful of coins, she becomes the property of the master and is taken away without warning to her new home. This isolated manor that seems like a castle to Rose, with the master's formidable mother and his absent wife, immediately provokes a sense of unease. Rose soon becomes caught in their perverse web, unsure of how to escape and whom she can trust. The English-language debut of critically acclaimed author Franck Bouysse, this exquisitely written novel is both a keen commentary on class and a chilling horror story. Deftly navigating the complexities of desire, abuse, compassion, and resilience, he has created a timeless portrait of human nature left to fester unseen.

»En sällsynt bok som skakar om redan från första sidan.« Le ParisienPrästen Gabriel får en dag ett oväntat meddelande av en kvinna när han sitter i biktstolen. Han kommer kallas till ett sinnessjukhus för att välsigna en avliden patients kropp, och den viskande rösten uppmanar honom att då smuggla ut några anteckningsblock som ligger gömda under den dödas klänning. De fullklottrade blocken visar sig innehålla historien om Rose, som med egna ord berättar om hur hon som fjortonåring såldes till en förmögen godsherre och hur hennes liv därefter förvandlades till ett inferno. Av ingen kvinna född är en grym saga men också en tidlös berättelse om en ung kvinnas modiga kamp för ett eget liv. Med gastkramande spänning drivs Franck Bouysses flerfaldigt prisbelönta roman mot sitt överraskande slut. Franck Bouysse föddes 1965 i den franska staden Brive. Han debuterade som författare 2007 och har sedan dess publicerat såväl litterära romaner som deckare. Av ingen kvinna född gavs ut i Frankrike 2019 och blev hans största framgång hittills. Romanen fick ett strålande mottagande och mottog flera fina priser, bland annat Prix des libraires, som röstas fram av franska bokhandlare. Lotta Riad är översättare från franska. Hon har tidigare översatt bland andra Emanuelle Carrère och Faïza Guène. PRESSRÖSTER»Mästerlig!« Le Nouvel Observateur»En bok man vill läsa om så snart man kommit till slutet för att vara säker på att man inte missat något och för att få njuta en gång till.« Libération »Bland alla böcker som publicerats detta år så finns det en som närmar sig det perfekta (...) På en gång klassisk och fantastisk visar Av ingen kvinna född att romankonsten ännu kan blända.« Le Monde des Livres»En gripande och förhäxande fresk, ett känslokaos med mörkrets alla tusen nyanser.« L express»Franck Bouysse ger sina kvinnliga gestalter en otrolig styrka.« elle »Helt fantastisk! En av årets största överraskningar. Läs den här boken och bli omskakade!« François Busnel, programledare för frankrikes största litteratur-tv-program La rande librairie