Sombre est la nuit
“Dark Is the Night” (title translated by AI)
Brigitte Haentjens (born 1951)
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A couple are on holiday in Mexico, and the alcohol flows without end. She looks at the man with her, his ruined body, his clear mind fogged by drink, and remembers who he was: the brilliant intellectual always surrounded by a circle of admirers, their endless discussions in the smoke of Gitanes. She remembers the repression that followed the euphoria of May 68, the empty bottles found under the bed, the humiliations and the shame, and the bruises on her own body that she could no longer hide. It is the chronicle of the wreck of a man, a couple and a whole generation.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 232 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Mexico
- First published
- 2022 by Éditions du Boréal
- Author's age
- 71 when first published
- ISBN
9782764627280 (original)