Cécile Coulon

La langue des choses cachées

January 11, 2024
Novel
150 pages
135 × 185 mm
18 €
9782378804046
978-2-3788-0404-6
																Cécile Coulon, La langue des choses cachées
																Cécile Coulon, La langue des choses cachées

A healer travels to a remote village. He has one night to repair the damage caused by his mother.

Mother knows the language of hidden things. She is called in the night, she comes at dusk. She heals, repairs what man’s madness and fury have damaged, accompanies death. And she leaves again before sunrise. That’s her job. She passes on her gift day after day to her son, in silence.
That night, the mother is called to the hamlet of Fond du Puits, and it’s the son who leaves. For the first time, he’s alone. And like all first times, nothing goes according to plan.
The son discovers that his mother had erred in this village years before. She left an indelible mark.
She had never told him. The son has until dawn to right the wrong. How do you act against your mother, the one who taught you everything? How do you know what’s right?

The author

Since writing her first book at seventeen years old, Cécile Coulon never ceases to surprise and amaze us. In just a few years, she has produced six novels, including Trois saisons d’orage, winner of the Prix des libraires, and a collection of poems (Prix Apollinaire 2017).
Her novel, A Beast in Paradise (Une bête au paradis, L’Iconoclaste, August 2019), was awarded the Prix littéraire Le Monde in 2019.

Strong points

A literary feat about nature and its mysteries, violence and heritage.

A suspended, breathless narrative. Cécile Coulon’s staggering, poetic pen is back.

January 11, 2024
Novel
150 pages
135 × 185 mm
18 €
9782378804046
978-2-3788-0404-6