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B>We truly loved reading this beautiful, simple novel in one sitting.' ELLE/b>br>b>/b>br>b>The bestselling phenomenon from France/b>Smita, Giulia, Sarah: three lives, three continents, three women with nothing in common, but nevertheless bound by a rare expression of courage - like three strands in a braid. b>India/b>. Smita is an untouchable, married to a 'rat-hunter', her job to clean with her bare hands the village latrines, just like her mother before her. Her dream is to see her daughter escape this same fate, and learn to read. When this hope is shattered, she takes matters into her own hands, despite her husband's warnings, despite the odds stacked against her . . . b>Sicily/b>. Giulia is a worker in her father's wig workshop, the last of its kind in Palermo. She classifies, washes, bleaches, and dyes the hair provided by the city's hairdressers. When her father is the victim of a serious accident, she quickly discovers her family have been living a lie . . . b>Canada/b>. Sarah is a reputed lawyer. As a twice-divorced mother of three children, she ploughs through cases at breakneck speed. Just as she is about to be promoted, she learns she has breast cancer. Her seemingly perfect existence begins to show its cracks . . . Laetitia Colombani's The Braid is the powerfully moving story of three women's courage in the face of adversity.


Rayons : Littérature > Littérature


  • Auteur(s)

    Laetitia Colombani

  • Éditeur

    Picador Uk

  • Distributeur

    Olf

  • Date de parution

    05/02/2020

  • EAN

    9781509881109

  • Disponibilité

    Disponible

  • Nombre de pages

    203 Pages

  • Longueur

    19.7 cm

  • Largeur

    12.9 cm

  • Épaisseur

    1.3 cm

  • Poids

    165 g

  • Support principal

    Poche

Laetitia Colombani

Laetitia Colombani, née en 1976 à Bordeaux, est une réalisatrice, actrice, scénariste et écrivaine française.

Elle a réalisé A la folie, pas du tout (2002) et Mes stars et moi (2008). Elle a publié son premier roman La Tresse, en 2017. Elle est aussi l'auteure des best-sellers Les Victorieuses (Grasset, 2019) et Le Cerf-volant (Grasset, 2021). Grasset a également publié les albums jeunesse La Tresse ou le voyage de Lalita (2018) et Les Victorieuses, ou le palais de Blanche (2021). L'album tiré du Cerf-volant paraitra à l'automne 2023. Laetitia Colombani écrit également pour la scène : sa première pièce Le Jour du kiwi avec Gérard Jugnot est un grand succès au théâtre Edouard VII en 2023.

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