Le vol du gerfaut / The Flight of Gerfaut – Contrucci

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Author:

Jean Contrucci

Publication Date:

HC Éditions
January 2018

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THE FLIGHT OF GERFAUT

Rights Holder: HC Éditions
Original Language: French

“ Le vol du gerfaut deftly turns into a roman noir and unfolds a diabolical story full of exhilaratingly cruel twists.”
—Le Figaro Littéraire

“On January 11, with the Le Vol du Gerfaut, the Marseillais Jean Contrucci will turn the Parisian literary world on its head.”
—L’OBS

Jean-Gabriel Lesparres is one of France’s most prized contemporary authors. A recipient of the prix Goncourt, admired by all, hailed by critics, the editorial director of Éditions Fontange…he has nothing left to prove to anyone…except to himself.

The public and especially his publisher has been waiting 10 years for him to write his next novel but he isn’t able to deliver. He’s convinced that his writing is simply not as good as it once was.

«You have to have the strength to destroy what you think is beneath you, » Lesparres tells himself secretly. And so he finds this strength in Manuel Botero, a struggling artist he encounters who agrees to « steal » his manuscript and then destroy it.

So how is it possible when he one day receives the galley copy of an upcoming novel that turns out to be his stolen book? And why is it credited as being written by a promising new author?

This is exactly was Lesparres sets out to understand as his world seems to crumble all around him…

Jean Contrucci is known for his series of history books « Les nouveaux mystères de Marseille » (Lattès). However, he began his career writing fiction (Un jour, tu verras, Belfond, La cathédrale engloutie, Grasset…), and returns to his first love here with Le vol du gerfaut.

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