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Fresh water for flowers / Valérie Perrin ; translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle.
Van Pelt Library PQ2716.E778 C4313 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perrin, Valérie, 1961- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Changer l'eau des fleurs. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Burgundy (France)--Fiction.
- Burgundy (France).
- Cemeteries--Fiction.
- Cemeteries.
- France--Burgundy.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 476 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2020.
- Summary:
- Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues--gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest--visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Sole--local police chief--who insists on scattering the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that Julien's inexplicable gesture is intertwined with Violette's own difficult past.
- ISBN:
- 9781787702202
- 1787702200
- 9781609455958
- 1609455959
- OCLC:
- 1121083606
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