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Prix Goncourt ごんくーるしょう

Edition 121 (2023)

NovelFrench literatureLiterary award

Winners

1 people

Built around the contrast between Mimo and Viola, this is an expansive story where love, ambition, art, and politics intersect. It is weighty, but the momentum of the characters carries it forward.

They cannot bring themselves to stay together, but they cannot stay apart.

544 pages
love and obsessionartistic formationclass divideItaly under fascismhistorical fiction