Bøger af Miguel Bonnefoy

"A dazzling family saga, brimming with poetry and passion, that skillfully weaves together the private lives of individuals and major historical events in South America and Europe. The house on Calle Santo Domingo in Santiago de Chile, screened from view by three lush lemon trees, has sheltered three generations of the Lonsonier family. Having arrived from the harsh hills of France's Jura region with a single grape vine in one pocket and a handful of change in the other, the patriarch took root there in the late nineteenth century. His son, Lazare, back from WWI's hellish trenches, would live there with his wife, Thâeráese, and build the most beautiful aviary in the Andes in their garden. That's where their daughter Margot, a pioneering aviatrix, would first dream of flying, and where she would pair off with a strange soldier reappearing from the past to give birth to the revolutionary Ilario Da. Many years later, a cruel tragedy would strike the Lonsoniers. Caught in the eye of the storm, they will fly off to meet their fate together, carrying the mysterious legend of a vanished uncle as their sole legacy. In this captivating saga that unfolds on both sides of the Atlantic, Miguel Bonnefoy paints the portrait of several generations of an endearing, uprooted family whose terrible dilemmas, caused by the blows of history, reveal their deep humanity"--

En overraskende familiekrønike fyldt med poesi og passion, der på smuk vis fletter de individuelle familiemedlemmers skæbner sammen med Historiens skelsættende begivenheder i Sydamerika og Europa.Krøniken tager sin begyndelse i 1873, da en fransk familie udvandrer fra Jura for at prøve lykken i Den nye verden. Vinlusen Phylloxera har lagt vinproduktionen ned og ruineret de franske vinbønder. Cirklen sluttes 100 år senere i 1973, da efterkommere vender tilbage til Frankrig som flygtninge fra militærstyret i Chile.Skrevet mellem drøm og virkelighed tegner Miguel Bonnefoy et portræt af en fascinerende men rodløs familie, der mod alle ods udviser en stor medmenneskelighed og humanisme.Romanen har vundet flere priser. Særligt De franske boghandleres pris i 2021.Miguel Bonnefoy er født i Paris (1986). Vokset op i Venezuela og Portugal og har fået sin uddannelse i det franske skolesystem. Romanen har vundet flere priser. Særligt de franske boghandleres pris i 2021.

A story of men and women setting out in search of new adventures, blown off course by illness, war and strokes of fate, this exuberant Franco-Chilean family saga spans a hundred years, two world wars, four generations and two continents in the space of ten short chapters.

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