Liliana Lazar entered literature with
Terre des affranchis
, which earned her around ten awards including the prize of the five continents of the French-speaking world.
JMG Le Clézio had saluted this novelist born in Romania who had adopted the French language for writing.
Carpathians
is her third title, it features a young French couple, Boris and Jeanne, who we find in an isolated inn in the middle of the Carpathian mountains:
“Their story was that of a misunderstanding.
He the boxer, she the intellectual.
Unlike Boris, Jeanne had grown up in a privileged environment;
but his father, a colonel, led his family as he commanded his regiment.”
Jeanne is pursuing a doctorate - the verb pursue fits the situation perfectly.
Their disagreement is obvious, even to the Romanian innkeeper who does not understand a word of French - very quickly, we learn that Jeanne is pregnant but her companion does not know it;
just as Boris knows that his partner will not have…
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