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Une somme humaine
“A Human Sum” (title translated by AI)
Makenzy Orcel (born 1983)
English editions
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Speaking from the dead in notebooks rescued from oblivion, a woman tells her life: a rumour-ridden provincial village, parents who ignored her, a mother fonder of her roses, a grandmother who offered comfort. She escapes to Paris to shed her ghosts, reads literature at the Sorbonne, loves a refugee from the war in Mali and enters working life.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 621 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France
- First published
- 2022 by Rivages
- Author's age
- 39 when first published
- ISBN
9782743657147 (original)
- More
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