Diane Brasseur Diane Brasseur (1980) lives in Paris and is a scriptwriter. Her two previous novels, Fidelities (Fidélités) and I Don’t Want Passion (Je ne veux pas d’une passion) were received with great critical acclaim from both critics and readers. Rights in Fidelities were sold to 8 territories.
Literary Fiction
The Division Diane Brasseur paints a gallery of souls, a family fresco that begins in 1920 Athens and ends half a century later on the shores of Lake Geneva.
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On January 12, 1977 Bruno K, a professor of literature who is adulated by his students and admired by his colleagues, walks the streets of Geneva. As he contemplates the legs of a pretty brunette who walks in front of him, he collapses, and dies. When his two brothers Georgely and Alexakis hear about his passing, something snaps. Ten years earlier, Bruno K had broken off all ties with his family.
Orig. Title: La Partition Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 400 pp. May 2019 Territory: World excl. French Material Available French MS available soon Under Option Germany, Estonia
The reader is taken on a journey to the origins of this disunited brotherhood. It starts in Athens, when their mother Koula meets Paul Peter K, a young man with soft skin and blond-gorged hair, who looks like a silent movie actor. It continues in Switzerland, where they settle after their marriage when Koula is only 17 years old. After the first months of passion and jubilation, Paul Peter K’s love fades and one night during carnival, Koula sees him in the arms of another woman. This is the beginning of a nightmare, the original crack that will mark his life and that of his sons. Koula divorces and returns to Greece with her eldest son Bruno K, leaving behind little Georgely, who is barely three years old. There, she meets her ultimate love and from their union Alexakis is born, a child with a great destiny.
About the author’s previous work: An electric style. A voice that is singular and just. — Elle A clear, fluid and musical style. — France Info Her sober and crystalline writing touches us just the right way. — Le Parisien
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