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EAN : 9782221239872

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 288

Size : 1 x 215 mm

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A Strange Girl

Armel Job

Release date : 07/02/2019

Be careful of “good intentions.”

What could be more peaceful than Maison Borj, a bakery in a little provincial town in Belgium in the late 1950s? A straightforward family, two charming teenagers, a flourishing business: the Borjs have everything they need to be happy. Then they generously agree to take on Josée, a war orphan,... What could be more peaceful than Maison Borj, a bakery in a little provincial town in Belgium in the late 1950s? A straightforward family, two charming teenagers, a flourishing business: the Borjs have everything they need to be happy. Then they generously agree to take on Josée, a war orphan, as an apprentice. Josée is a strange girl. Epileptic and practically illiterate, the girl nevertheless has a moving gift for singing that, after a midnight mass broadcast on the radio, earns her an invitation to the royal palace.
Stirred up by rumors and disapproval from outsiders, this invitation will shatter the Borjs’ harmony, torn between the father’s mid-life crisis, the mother’s resentment, and the daughter’s jealousy. Josée becomes the catalyst for their ruin. In spite of herself, like a psychoanalytic cure, she brings up buried secrets, plunging the family into as much unrest as that of her epileptic fits. In just a few weeks, the Maison Borj falls like a house of cards, and its apparent happiness, built on fragile foundations, is smashed to pieces.
Because, though each character is moved by good intentions at first, they are all trapped by their egoism and cowardice. And, as is often the case, the innocent pay the price.

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EAN : 9782221239872

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 288

Size : 1 x 215 mm

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