Tras el éxito de El ancho mundo, Pierre Lemaitre sigue con su trepidante saga familiar
«Arte con mayúsculas.» -Le Figaro Littéraire
París, 1952. Tras mudarse a la capital francesa desde Beirut, los hermanos Pelletier se enfrentan a los retos que les plantea su ciudad de adopción. Cuando Hélène llega a Chevrigny, un pueblo de la Francia profunda, para realizar un reportaje por encargo del Journal du Soir, es testigo de los dramas humanos de quienes se verán expulsados para siempre de sus hogares y, en ese contexto, su vida dará un vuelco inesperado.
Entretanto, su hermano François, un resuelto periodista del mismo diario parisino, debe descubrir quién es realmente Nine, mientras Jean, el inepto hermano mayor, atormentado por su diabólica esposa, Geneviève, se enfrenta a sus violentas pulsiones y, una vez más, intenta huir de la justicia.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
From “a novelist at the height of his powers,” a dramatic and jubilant dive into France in the “glory days” of the 1950s, through the lens of one ambitious, troubled, and utterly compelling family (La Croix).
It is 1952 and the grown children of Louis Pelletier, a prominent businessman with a dark past, have settled in Paris. Jean, the menacing eldest brother, is trapped in a stifling marriage, his days lightened only by his love for his three-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, the bloody consequences of his violent impulses threaten to catch up to him at last.
François, an up-and-coming reporter, is caught up in a turbulent love affair with an intriguing woman who isn’t quite the person she pretends to be. And Hélène, their younger sister, strives to make her own way as a journalist as she fights to expose a vast industrial scandal. But as a woman in a man’s world, Hélène’s devotion to her career comes at a life-threatening cost.
Dark and compelling, witty and vivid, and filled with surprising reversals and cliffhangers, The Silence and the Rage is the story of one remarkable family against the backdrop of France during one of its most thrilling and volatile periods.
