After " The big middle-class persons ", Emmanuelle de Boysson brushes a portrait of the province through the deranged quadras, called " the Embroiderers ".
Novel of Emmanuelle de Boysson
Editions JC Latt s
:: History::
Diana Muller, Parisian journalist, comes back to Mulhouse where she burnt her adolescence. For her, Alsace is linked to the memory of a worshiped but secret father, and of a mother perhaps too marvellous. Diana reties Valentine with her youth friends, Sidonie, Mirabelle, a band of deranged quadras was called " the embroiderers ". Between them a mysterious nightgown circulates which produces on each of quasi magical effects. With this effervescent round dance, Emmanuelle de Boysson crunches with delight this generation of lively, free and fragile women who cross the age of the deuils babies, but help each other and rebound. A painting warm and full of humour of the new French heroines more than ever in search of authenticity, with the merit to reduce prejudices to nothingness hard life in province and to give a pretty place to female friendship. sources: JC Latt s 2008
