Maisons fauves

Macha, in her early thirties, retraces the places she has lived since childhood, from Vineuil and Kinshasa to Brazzaville, Paris, a Norman manor, a haunted house in Orléans and a cage in Verdun. Through them she recalls expatriate life and poverty, painting, racism and antisemitism, rejection at school, first thrills and frights, hunger and lack.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

326 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Coming of age, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

France, Congo - Kinshasa, Congo - Brazzaville, Canada

First published

2019 by Triptyque

ISBN

9782898010262 (original)