The sun reaches the Reading Club

el martes, 6 of September, a las 20:30 hours monthly meeting of the Reading Club Santa Eulària del Riu takes place, where discussion on the novel Laurent Gaudé, The sun of Scorta, Goncourt prize winner of the year 2004.

Born in Paris in 1972, Laurent Gaudé is also a novelist playwright. Ha publicado, Además, Cris novels and the legacy of King Tsongor. As a playwright he has written six works, between them owned Fights, Onysos furious, the sacrificed, represented in Paris, Berlin is London, but it is for his novels so it is best known.

en The sun of Scorta, tells how, since the late nineteenth century to the present, several generations of the same family face affronts and challenges in the small town of Montepuccio, Perched by the sea, among hills and olive groves burned by a pitiless sun. One fateful summer afternoon, the illicit union of a petty criminal and a mature spinster born Mascalzone Rocco Scorta, and with him, a race doomed to disgrace and shame. Although unforgettable Carmela, Giuseppe, Domenico and Raffaele living in poverty, always forced to start again, They are transmitted proudly inheritance leaving them miserable life. Except for the modest family expenduría snuff, his wealth is intangible; compose common memories, an insatiable thirst for life and a rare ability to keep secrets, which makes them infinitely strong and powerful.

Since then he has published Eldorado (2006), volume accounts One night in Mozambique (2007) y Hells Gate (2008).

Reading Club Santa Eulalia

The sun of Scorta

Tuesday, 6 of September

20.30 horas

Municipal library