This second novel is the prequel to his first, “As Long as Orion Shines in the Night”. La Ruthénoise highlights the brotherhood that brought together in France, Spaniards fleeing the Franco regime and welcoming Jews in a Paris in the process of falling towards the Second World War. With a thought for his ancestors…
“Where our loves reside”. This is the title of Christelle Galtier-Lechowicz’s second novel, after “As Long as Orion Shines in the Night”. This second book is the prequel. After having navigated the world of cinema or literature in her first novel, with a character who, like her when she was 41 years old, suffered a severe stroke, the Ruthenoise offers a more “historical” novel. “.
A “more historical” novel
In any case, totally attached to the flight from Francoist Spain and to this France which will fall into the Vichy regime. As a backdrop, this novel explores the welcome of strangers. The basis of his book are these two steel rings hanging on the carriage entrance of this building in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. They look like knockers, but you grab more than you knock with them. In this building, moments of brotherhood are experienced, within this Jewish family which welcomes all those who lay their hands on these rings. Starting with Magdalena, then Juan who will come to find her. They flee Franco’s Spain. A Juan who will enter into resistance when this host family becomes a victim of the roundup…
I am a granddaughter of immigrants who were resistant. In a France that was built thanks to its immigrants
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“With the name that I bear, I am obviously attentive to history. That of before and that of today. I am a granddaughter of immigrants who were resistant. In a France which built thanks to its immigrants”, slips Christelle Galtier-Lechowicz, who quotes Victor Hugo on the back cover of her book: Foreigner? What does this word mean? […] You tell me we are at home and you are not at home? Or ? Here ? You only have to dig a pit there and you will see that the earth will receive me just as well as you.”
Reminiscence of childhood memories
For Christelle Galtier-Lechowicz, this novel exudes the reminiscence of childhood memories, where in the neighborhood in which she grew up, everyone spoke to everyone. “Where has this world gone?” With this second novel, she confirms her desire to tell a form of history of humanity. If his first novel took several years to complete, the ink of the prequel quickly found its way to the pages. Launched by the success of “Orion”. And to be honest, a third novel is in preparation. But first, she wants to bring this second novel to life. “Where our loves are housed is a way of paying tribute to those who resist, who fight.” Ah, if all doors had these rings that mean welcome…
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