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Un enfant ou une voiture
Julie Resa

They had dreamed about it for a long time. Leaving Paris. Good-bye noise, pollution and fatigue. Find a house in the country. Near a city where they could find jobs. Rediscover the simple pleasures of neighbours and nature… And finally have a child. It was time. Babette was going to turn 40 soon. But the reality hardly matched their dreams. The only job Paul can find is an hour-and-a-half train ride away. When all goes well. Meaning at least three hours a day in trains. Exhausted, even though they had always believed in public transportation when they lived in Paris, one night when the trains are running particularly late, Paul decides, to buy a car. Babette had assumed she would get pregnant right away. Although she had been indifferent about it for years, having a child has suddenly turned into an unhealthy obsession. They have been in Chambéry for almost two years now. Each of them has been building their own private castle in the air. A child or a car. You wouldn’t think the two would be incompatible. Not in theory, anyway… The dream of a house in the suburbs with a big backyard. The portrait of a forty-year-old woman and her desire to have a baby… Julie Resa describes the illusions of a generation with great finesse.

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  • Buchet/Chastel
  • Littérature française
  • Publication date : 09/02/2012
  • Size : 11,5 x 19,0 cm, 136 p., 13,20 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-283-02563-5
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