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Julliard
EAN : 9782260054467
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 270
Size : 130 x 205 mm
Lovers

Release date : 11/06/2020
Inspired by real events, the love story of two women with everything going against them on the eve of World War II. An ode to liberty and sensuality.
 
Spring 1939. Claire, a young middle-class woman from Le Havre, has only ever known life in her manor home and her role as a submissive wife to which her societal position has constrained her. Pregnant for the second time with a husband who is humiliating her by sleeping with all the... Spring 1939. Claire, a young middle-class woman from Le Havre, has only ever known life in her manor home and her role as a submissive wife to which her societal position has constrained her. Pregnant for the second time with a husband who is humiliating her by sleeping with all the housemaids, she hides away in the countryside in order to give birth in secret and leave her baby with a couple who own a café, since the wife, Marthe, is barren. Claire discovers a world that had remained completely foreign to her up to now—the    simple, rural life of the modest people who have welcomed her. As her relationship with Marthe develops more and more, she discovers an overwhelming sense of freedom, leading her to find her true self.

With this first, poetic novel full of luminous sensuality, Frédéric Baptiste takes on the theme of women’s emancipation in the 1930s and the taboo of feminine homosexuality. Lovers depicts the confusion, attraction, fear, desire, then abandonment of a love stronger than oneself. Claire will free herself of the constraints she has always known in order to discover her true identity. Her love for Marthe and the eroticism that follows are a joyful revelation.
 
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EAN : 9782260054467
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 270
Size : 130 x 205 mm
Julliard