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La Maison Tudaure
Caroline Sers

The story takes place in a small village whose inhabitants have been sticking to themselves for more than forty years. The only road leading to it is in bad shape, and visitors are rare.
One day Claude, a teenager who spends his days in the woods instead of at school, notices something strange. It’s out of the question for him to mention it to anyone. Everyone thinks he’s weird, and no one – adults or boys his own age – is close to him. But the police may well have noticed it too; they call the whole village in and interrogate everyone. That’s all it takes to stir things up: a town meeting is organized, and tempers flare. In the village, no one trusts the authorities or anyone who tries to stick their nose into other people’s business.
The woods hide plenty of sordid secrets, and it’s too late to pretend it isn’t so. Is the past finally coming back to haunt them, even if mentioning it is taboo? The village thinks so, and the group is tighter than ever. More than forty years later, the same drama is played out again. And the younger generation knows exactly what roles they’re meant to play.

A story about memory and isolation, The Tudaure House shows how people’s lives can be deliberately determined by a group or clan’s past. In this, her second novel, Caroline Sers masters suspense skillfully. And for your reading pleasure, her eagle eye carefully examines things unspoken and secret, and their consequences.

La Maison Tudaure -
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  • Buchet/Chastel
  • Littérature française
  • Publication date : 24/08/2006
  • Size : 14 x 20,5 cm, 224 p., 18,00 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-283-02220-7
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  • Les Petits Sacrifices -
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