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Simon & Schuster
July 2016
On Sale: July 5, 2016
288 pages
ISBN: 1501122282
EAN: 9781501122286
Kindle: B0176M3QBO
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Women's Fiction Historical
A lush, evocative, debut novel set in Provence about the
people who grow up and live and remain in two tiny
neighboring villages—from the Nazi occupation to the present
day—in particular, one man and one woman who have yet to
find love. In the south of France farm life unfolds with the rhythm of
the seasons. But the lives of these villagers in Amour
Provence reflect the reality that the midi is a
place of extremes, the summers of unbearable heat and the
winters that are often rude and harsh. Like the climate, the
characters find themselves swept away by storms of
unannounced and devastating intensity. A vintner’s
adolescent son has a passionate romance with his
schoolmate’s mother and they suffer different and enduring
consequences. A young Arab woman forced into an arranged
marriage, learns that life in the land of Liberté and
Egalité can be just as confining as in her own
country. A French woman who has lived abroad for many years
returns home and discovers that certain members of her
family are not pleased to have her back. An unexpected
encounter with his past brings new sparks of life to a man
who believed he had lost everything, including the only
woman he ever loved. In these two small adjacent villages in the South of France,
characters lead lives that overlap and intertwine. Many are
close neighbors who have known each other from childhood,
linked by ancestors who clung for centuries to their
patrimony, the land, which had always been poor, but is now
a source of wealth drawn from wine, olives, and tourists.
They know a great deal about each other’s hidden passions
and weaknesses. Age-old resentments and closely guarded
secrets retain their hold but are never to be discussed.
Amour Provence is a portrait of lives deeply lived,
shadowed by the past, against the backdrop of a region and a
nation gripped by change.
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