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Les Trois Femmes de ma vie
by Dominique Fernandez.
Philippe Rey, 257 pp., €20, October 2024,978 2 38482 114 3 Show More
by Dominique Fernandez.
Philippe Rey, 257 pp., €20, October 2024,
“... Not many people born in 1929 are still productive, but Dominique Fernandez, winner of the 1982 Goncourt Prize for the novel Dans la main de l’ange, turned 95 a little before his new memoir, Les Trois Femmes de ma vie, appeared – the three women are his grandmother, mother and wife. It wasn’t even the first book he published last year, but followed the novel Un jeune homme simple ... ”