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Les enfants de la nuit de Eva Ionesco
Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle

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Publisher's presentation : After Innocence, the novel of childhood, this is the novel of adolescence and all the first times. In a dreamy, sometimes crude way, Eva Ionesco retraces a violent existence in the world of the night, at the end of the 1970s. The child who is too far ahead of her time wanders alone and aimlessly, until college and the discovery of a friendship with Christian Louboutin. She loves him; he, a homosexual, will now protect her and do the 400 coups with her. Then comes Vincent Darré, the beautiful Edwige, Alain Pacadis and finally, at the end of the night and sometimes borderline encounters, bordering on danger and death, the discovery of a crazy love, Charles Serruya. He is 29 years old and she is 13.
Christian, Eva, Vincent, the band crosses the social Paris, the one of fashion and the mythical parties of the Palace, but also, more popular and secret, the one of Pigalle, of Montparnasse or of the Main Bleue in Montreuil. Immigrant workers, homosexual activists, African sappers, transvestites, journalists at Libération, it is a diverse, mixed, uninhibited Paris that rubs shoulders. With friends, we bargain, we steal, we take drugs, we do strip-teases, in group it is so funny. Paris is a party, we dance, the crowd is joyful, it's an adventure, the life ahead of us...
But in the background, Eva's mother, the disturbing Irene, is accused by the judge for children of having made her daughter lead an unnatural life and of selling her. A social worker leads the investigation and Eva keeps silent, terrified that the police will threaten the little band.
Poetic and fantastic, the story restores the soul of a lost Paris. A desperate quest for love,  an address to friendship, to tenderness, to those whom one has cherished since childhood and whom it is impossible to forget.

 

 

Before sleep

Winter

To my friends

Easy to read

Contemporary

Between 10 and 20$

A few days
 





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