Laurent Mauvignier

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• La Maison vide

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  Goncourt 2025 · ★ Winner

  La Maison vide

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Empty House”

  Laurent Mauvignier · 58 when first published

  Novel · 743 pages · Family, Historical, War

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1976 a man reopens the house he inherited from his mother, shut for twenty years. Inside are a piano, a Legion of Honour and photographs with one face cut out, traces of the women who once lived there.

• Des hommes

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  Goncourt 2009 · Shortlist

  The Wound

  Des hommes

  Laurent Mauvignier · 42 when first published

  Novel · 242 pages · War

  AIAI-generated summary:Called up to fight in Algeria in 1960, Bernard, Février, Rabut and others came home two years later and kept silent. Forty years on, a birthday and a small gift bring the past back.