Heritage (eBook)

Miguel Bonnefoy (Autor)

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2025
160 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-80533-387-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A pocket-sized family saga from the rich imagination and storytelling talents of Franco-Venezuelan author Miguel Bonnefoy.A winegrower ruined by the Great French Vine Blight takes his one surviving vine stock and boards a ship for California. But the new life he has in store is not the one he had imagined - taken ill aboard ship, he is forced to disembark at Valparaíso, where a misunderstanding at the customs post finds him rebaptized after his birthplace, Lons-le-Saunier: the Lonsonier family is born in Chile.Making the journey in reverse, his sons return to defend the motherland in 1914, and the ghosts of the war live on across the Atlantic, in a house with three lemon trees and a garden filled with birds, for years to come.From the depths of the trenches to the soaring peaks of the Andes and the shadow of dictatorship, the personal stories of the Lonsoniers collide with key moments in a century of global history, painting a vivid picture of what is both gained and lost through migration. This pocket-sized family saga confirms the rich imagination and storytelling talents of exciting young author Miguel Bonnefoy.

Autor

Miguel Bonnefoy was born in France in 1986 to a Venezuelan mother and a Chilean father. In 2013, he was awarded the Prix du Jeune Ecrivain, which previously launched the careers of Marie Darrieussecq and others. Octavio's Journey is Bonnefoy's first novel, written in French. It has sold more than 25,000 copies in France and has been awarded the Prix Edmée de la Rochefoucauld (for debut novels - past winners include Goncourt winner Mathias Enard), the Prix Fénéon and the Prix de la Vocation, which rewards new talent (past winners include Amélie Nothomb and Joël Dicker). The book was also shortlisted for the Prix des Cinq Continents and the Goncourt First Novel Award.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2025
• Übersetzer: Emily Boyce
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: Andes Mountains • California winegrowers • Chilean family history • cultural heritage • Family Saga • Franco-Venezuelan author • French-Chilean roots • French emigration • Generational legacy • Global History • Great French Vine Blight • Historical family narrative • historical fiction • Impact of dictatorship • Lons-le-Saunier • Lonsonier family • migration and displacement • Miguel Bonnefoy • Transcontinental Journey • Valparaíso Chile • War and migration • World War I
• ISBN-10: 1-80533-387-9 / 1805333879
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80533-387-6 / 9781805333876