"Les Impatientes", the Goncourt prize dreamed of by our readers

"Les Impatientes" elected Goncourt prize by the readers of "20 Minutes" -

Forty-nine percent of the vote: it's a real plebiscite.

Out of 160 votes, 79, or nearly half of

readers

hope to see

by Djaïli Amadou Amal win the 2020 Goncourt Prize.

“This book is a strong and powerful testimony from which we do not come out unscathed […].

Because of the moral and social pressure of those around them, like a prison without walls, mothers reproduce for their daughter a life identical to theirs made of suffering and self-sacrifice.

Fortunately, a little glimmer of hope lights up at the end… ”, explains our reader Catherine Rivet, who particularly appreciated it.

A symbolic scope, but not only

Of course, the four books of the four candidates were not all read by each of the voters and this vote remains very subjective, the symbolic significance playing a significant role.

It is indeed the only novel of the four written by a woman, signed by an African, which deals with the daily life of women, and in particular forced marriage, in a country she fled ...

But for our reader-contributor Marceline Bodier, who has read the four finalist novels, awarding her the Goncourt Prize would have more than a simple symbolic value: “Of the four,

 is the only text that creates empathy. from its first lines, reads on the verge of tears, and closes with the intoxicating feeling of having read a masterpiece, ”she underlines… What the other candidates are not, according to Marceline Bodier.

Nor 

, which

 presents itself as an intellectual game that is certainly attractive, but cerebral".

Nor 

"a distanced story of an author who transposed his own frequentation of the powerful with a look that was not devoid of humor, but cold".

Neither 

, who “suffers from aesthetic choices in the way of approaching his own story which make the appropriation of the text difficult.

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