©Maxime Reychman
Mazarine Pingeot is both a writer and teacher. Her works published by Julliard include: Premier roman (1998), Bouche cousue (2005, over 250,000 copies sold), and Le cimitière des poupées (2007).
Mara and Manuel live in their passion and nothing else. They fled France and their careers to live reclusively in Morocco where nobody knows them or their past. Mara’s fierce desire to have a baby threatens this isolated existence; she can’t manage to fall pregnant despite their continuous efforts, and...
Mara and Manuel live in their passion and nothing else. They fled France and their careers to live reclusively in Morocco where nobody knows them or their past. Mara’s fierce desire to have a baby threatens this isolated existence; she can’t manage to fall pregnant despite their continuous efforts, and her desperation almost kills them.
Hicham, Manuel’s friend and business partner, decides he must save Mara from this self-destructive life with Manuel. He leaves his wife and children behind in order to bring Mara back to France in search of her beginnings. She is determined to find the family she never knew.
With Hicham’s help, Mara experiences a renaissance; she re-enters the world, begins a new career, and establishes ties with others. She becomes a completely different person from the one she was with Manuel.
When she at last reunites with her grandmother, all roads lead straight back to Manuel.
“I was gripped by this story about a terrible violence that sweeps everything in its path.”
Benjamin Stora
Mazarine Pingeot is both a writer and teacher. Her works published by Julliard include: Premier roman (1998), Bouche cousue (2005, over 250,000 copies sold), and Le cimitière des poupées (2007).