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Goncourt 2004 · Shortlist
Val Paradis
Alain Jaubert · 64 when first published
Novel · 435 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:At the end of the 1950s, a young sailor barely out of a dreamy adolescence puts in at Valparaíso, the legendary port near Cape Horn, a city of stairways, alleys and seedy brothels.