Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues-three gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest.
Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of police chief Julien Seul, wishing to deposit his mother's ashes on the gravesite of a complete stranger. Julien is not the only one to guard a painful secret: his mother's story of clandestine love breaks through Violette's carefully constructed defences to reveal the tragic loss of her daughter, and her steely determination to find out who is responsible.
The funny, moving, intimately told story of a woman who believes obstinately in happiness, Fresh Water for Flowers brings out the exceptional and the poetic in the ordinary. A delightful, atmospheric, absorbing tale.
“一本书的美丽,强烈的大气苦乐参半的梦想。” * Matt Haig *
"A beautiful, intensely atmospheric bittersweet dream of a book." * Matt Haig *
作者简介
Valerie Perrin 是一位摄影师和编剧,与 Claude Lelouch 合作。 她的第一部小说 Les Oublies du Dimanche 赢得了无数奖项,包括 2016 年 Lire Elire 和 Poulet-Malassis。《鲜花之淡水 》是她第一部被翻译成英文的小说,并在国际上引起轰动。
Valerie Perrin is a photographer and screenwriter who works with Claude Lelouch. Her first novel, Les Oublies du Dimanche, won numerous prizes including the 2016 Lire Elire and Poulet-Malassis. Fresh Water for Flowers is her first novel to be translated into English and an international sensation.
Hildegarde Serle 毕业于牛津大学法语系。 在伦敦担任报纸副主编多年后,她获得了英国特许语言学家协会的翻译文凭。 她是《A Winter's Promise》和《The Missing of Clairdelune》的翻译。
Hildegarde Serle graduated in French from Oxford University. After working as a newspaper subeditor in London for many years, she obtained the Chartered Institute of Linguists Diploma in Translation. She is the translator of A Winter's Promise and The Missing of Clairdelune.
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