The savage wedding
By: Yann Queffélec ; translated by Linda Coverdale ; foreword by Frank Wynne
Publisher: Capuchin Classics
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781907429521
Subjects: Rape victims; Fiction; Abandoned children; Mothers and sons
Work titles: Wedding
Description: In a small French town the baker's daughter is brutally raped. She bears a son, Ludo, whose love for his mother is passionate. She, however, has only to look into his eyes to be reminded of the crime that begot him. She sends him to a school for difficult children, which starts off the peculiar course of Ludo's life.
Notes: Originally published as: The wedding. London : Alison Press, 1988.

Translated from the French.