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Aloysius
Fabrice Pataut

Part I takes place in Minorca (Balear Islands, Spain), in March, 1939. Franco has just entered Madrid and taken power. Because Minorca had been on the side of the Republic, the Francists organize a massacre as an example.
The second part takes place in Barcelona, years later. Franco is dead. It is the early years of the Movida.

Off the island of Minorca, Aloysius, the young scion of the Sintes family, falls overboard on a stormy day. He is missing and believed dead.
Yet on that day, a spy ship in the pay of Franco recovers the body. On board, a Nazi manages to save the child and decides to bring him back with him to Germany. There the boy – now called Thomas – will start a new life.
In Minorca, a few months after the tragedy, the Sintes decide to replace their dearly departed. Colin is a handsome English orphan; he takes Aloysius’s name and place. In Barcelona in 1980, when the world of their childhood has long since disappeared, Thomas and Aloysius meet and recognize each other…

A surprisingly stylish and well-constructed first novel — filled with suspense and drama. A perversely elegant, literary text that plays with masks

 

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  • Buchet/Chastel
  • Littérature française
  • Publication date : 24/08/2001
  • Size : 14 x 20,5 cm, 352 p., 18,25 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-283-01865-1
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