“What I know about you”, from Eric Chacour, won the Genette Prize. This is the story, located in Cairo in the 60s, of a young boy whose future seems to be drawn, until the day when a prohibited passion upsets his certainties. “With subtlety and emotion, the author explores the limits imposed by society, family secrets, unsaid. A tender, tragic and singular novel. Dusting!”, Comments Dominique Jacques, diligent member of the village reading club.
The club was born in the spring, carried by Anne-Marie Pardiac and supported by Ingrid Rivet, patron of the Café Librairie on the Beau. A dozen readers gathered regularly and created the Prix de la Genette, a name chosen in reference to a small carnivore in the Southwest: a nod to the Prix de l’Hermine, organized for several years in Nasbinal, another village on the Chemin de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle.
After having read, debated and selected 6 titles from a dozen books recently published in pockets, the members of the club offered their favorites to the readers of the village or passing. Everyone could read, vote and exchange until this evening in July when, around a drink and under the sun, the votes were stripped. It was by a plebiscite that the winner of the all new Prix de la Genette was thus elected.
Appointment is already made for a new season of readings shared Thursday, September 25.
