Marie-Hélène Lafon: a family fresco around parentage

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Marie-Hélène Lafon at her home in Paris, who has kept a slate from her house in Cantal.

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By: Pascal Paradou

30 mins

The novelist Marie-Hélène Lafon signs with her 13th novel Histoire du fils the portrait of a family over four generations.

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A story made of silences and taboos because André was born of an unknown father and his mother "caught a child" as they said at the beginning of the 20th century.

A dive into the heart of Cantal where Marie-Hélène Lafon is from, and which is often the backdrop for her many novels and short stories.

The novel

is published by Buchet-Chastel editions

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