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    612-822-4611

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Une Annee Etrangere

Une Annee Etrangere

Giraud, Brigitte

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 2234063469
ISBN13: 9782234063464
Publisher: Stock
Published: Dec 1 2019
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French

Rights sold to: Germany (Fischer) - Italy (Ugo Guanda), The Netherlands (Van Gennep), Portugal (Platano)

Having set off to Germany as an au pair girl, seventeen-year-old Laura finds she does not speak the country's language as well as she thought. Next it is her host family, a couple with two children, who perplex her with their simple way of life, their behaviour and habits. Is she here to look after the children, do housework, improve her German or actually just grow up? She has ended up in an average family which appears to be less torn apart than her own, to harbour fewer secrets, and yet Laura gradually comes face to face with a number of mysteries: about origins and inheritance. She would so like to delve into these characters for some truth, some meaning that would finally fill the gaps and silences in her endless adolescence. When she grows close to the only boy in the family, does she recognise the younger brother she has lost? Is she right to wait so feverishly for news of her own family back in France? Having found a copy of Mein Kampf in the German grandfather's house she jumps to conclusions and can't help reading those forbidden pages, only to find she is disgusted as well as fascinated by them. The children's mother falls ill. The father seems to grow closer to Laura every day. What does he want from her? Laura wonders what price she has to pay to become a woman, to confront her future and to leave this house so that she can go home to her own.

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