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Nous sommes tous des Carthaginois
Catherine Saint Phalle

A little girl growing up in her bedroom. It has blood-red wallpaper and is located at the far end of a flat that we can only imagine as being sprawling and deserted. All around her, everything is unreliable. Gradually, the little girl realises that the haughty lady who ignores her whenever they meet in the halls is her mother. The little girl awaits Saturdays impatiently, for on Saturdays, her father comes to take her out. During these precious hours he tells her about the brothers and sisters she’s never known, and the many marvellous heroes amongst her relatives. He himself was once a Resistant. And he himself has always worshipped Cesar and Napoleon. But what fascinates him above all, and what he describes in lush detail to his daughter, is the extraordinary tale of the ancient battle between the Romans and the Carthaginians.
Every Saturday, near the duck pond in Paris’s Jardin des Tuileries, there’s a veritable bloodbath. The compassionate child tries each week to plead in favour of the poor Carthaginians. But every time, her father is adamant, Carthage is destroyed, and salt is spread over its ashes…

Many years later, the narrator remembers. A humorous book about sad times, readers will be caught in the spells of memory woven into Catherine de Saint-Phalle’s touching fourth novel.

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  • Buchet/Chastel
  • Littérature française
  • Publication date : 24/09/2004
  • Size : 11,5 x 19,0 cm, 250 p., 14,20 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-283-02055-5
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