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War and love
by Alfred de Montesquiou (beach book prize)
At the heart of the Syrian conflict, a romantic and realistic story: the novel
L'Étoile des frontières
was awarded in Les Sables-d'Olonne with the first Beach Book Prize.
Alfred de Montesquiou at the award ceremony for the Beach Book Prize at the Fenestreau estate in Sables d'Olonne, on June 12.
Arnaud Sauvion
There is no beach in Alfred de Montesquiou's first novel, but lots of sand. Because the novelist leads the reader into Syria at war, especially in Homs, but also in Lebanon, in the heart of this Middle East which has looked like a barrel of gunpowder for too long. It should be noted that Alfred de Montesquiou, born in 1978, knows the field. Grand reporter, Albert-Londres Prize 2012 for his coverage of the Libyan civil war, author of several books and documentaries, he has surveyed many dangerous areas. That said, you don't write a (good) novel with a CV, even a prestigious one. And if one guesses that his experience obviously nourished
L'Étoile des frontières,
the writer had the good taste to avoid caricatures and clichés in favor of characters and the romantic depth of field.
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