Beside The Sea
Published on 17. February 2012
112 pages
978-1-908670-07-6 (ISBN)
Description
A single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink hot chocolate and go to the funfair. She wants to protect them from a cold and uncomprehending world. She knows that it will be the last trip for her boys. This is a haunting and thought-provoking story about how a mother's love for her children can be more dangerous than the dark world she is seeking to keep at bay. Veronique Olmi handles an aspect of motherhood we all too often deny. She depicts a woman's fear of releasing her children into the world. The simple first person narrative achieves an extraordianry level of poetry and inner truth. The French literary bestseller, first published in 2001, has been translated into all major European languages and is now for the first time available in English.
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Beside the sea
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01/2010
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Content
- Intro
- Publisher's introduction
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- Subscribe
- Other titles from Peirene Press
- About the Author and Translator
- Copyright
