Around ten readers, who frequent the libraries of Mazières, Saint-Lin, Saint-Pardoux-Soutiers and Verruyes, met in the Mazière library on Thursday, October 10, to discuss and vote among the four Irish novels in the running and participate in the Cognac European Literature Readers’ Prize.
The weight of religion
From the month of May, thirty-three participants began reading these four novels, a difficult selection. Not everyone made it to the end.
Historical novel or fiction, all the readers present agree that the weight of religion is present in the four books. It’s very heavy
confides one of them. For another, the weight of Protestantism, I could no longer bear it.
But there are still some nice surprises, with the novel “Sometimes Silence is a Prayer”, by Billy O’Callaghan, which gets eight votes.
It’s a beautiful story, a simply written book that grips the guts
remarked a reader. And his neighbor on the right continued: Some passages are full of poetry and sometimes it’s sad.
Another one : It is a book full of dignity and humanity.
The author of this novel comes to meet his audience Friday, November 15, at 6:30 p.m., at the Saint-Pardoux library. The three other novels in the running are “Les Rapissements”, by Jan Carson, five votes; “The Broken Fields”, by Ruth Gilligan, five votes; “Trouble”, by Louise Kennedy, five votes.
Official presentation of the readers’ prize on Saturday November 16, at 10 a.m., at the Cognac proscenium.
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