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I have just finished reading Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin, translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle and I wish I had the time to start reading it all over again. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

location, come si usa dire: un cimitero; ma anche la protagonista/narratrice, Violette Toussaint, non può lasciarci indifferenti: nata orfana, abbandonata dal marito, ex guardiana di passaggio a livello, ora custode del cimitero di Brancion-en Chalon, Borgogna, Francia. For a woman like me, not feeling compassion would be like being an astronaut, a surgeon, a volcanologist, or a geneticist. Violette’s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of a local police chief, Julien Seul, who insists on depositing the ashes of his mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger.A recluse in a way, at night when it’s quiet and the people she interacts, with the gravediggers - Nono, Gaston, Elvis , the undertakers - the Lucchini brothers and the priest Cedric have left for the day. A beautiful and moving tale of a woman who is a caretaker at a cemetery, living alone and keeping a diary of every funeral she has attended to.

Multi-layered, full of depth, and handling the concept of death and all that surrounds it so well, this book really is something special. uma rapariga carente com o seu quê de rebelde, que se torna uma mulher doce e generosa, que apesar de continuar a ser maltratada pela vida, é uma mãe extremosa e uma amiga leal e compreensiva. Sarà che era tempo che non stavo sveglia di notte a leggere per capire come si chiudevano tutti i livelli narrativi di cui è composta questa storia. Violette’s specific path from the darkness back into the light felt a bit pat to me, a bit too easy and romantic, but maybe that’s what novels are for, at least some of the time. Valérie Perrin recorreu a todos os géneros literários para conseguir encher um número excessivo de páginas: romance, diário, mistério, conto de fadas, discursos fúnebres, epígrafes, fazendo até uma incursão muito subtil à autobiografia.Her English-language debut, Fresh Water for Flowers (Europa, 2020) won the Maison de la Presse Prize, the Paperback Readers Prize, and was named a 2020 ABA Indies Introduce and Indie Next List title. She is hardworking, kind, compassionate, sensitive, and vulnerable, with flaws and depth to her character. brings out the exceptional and the poetic in the ordinary and reminds us of the life affirming value of kindness.