Ask a French country child where he is going and he answers “to the house”, the only house in the world. Bordeaux’s narrator remembers growing up in such a family house, a little kingdom with its dynasty, enemies, treaties and abdication, the pictures on its walls, and his slow discovery of the wider world beyond.
A warm, nostalgic French novel of family and tradition, by a member of the Académie française. Download the free EPUB.