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Marcel

Erwin Mortier

3.32/5 (919 ratings)

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The narrator is a ten year old boy who lives with his grandparents in a Flemish village. His grandmother guards the family dead with fierce determination, arranging and re-arranging their photographs in a special cabinet, talking to them and arguing with them. The cabinet is an extension of heaven, with its own purgatory and hell: their place in his grandmother's favour is marked by their proximity to a statue of the Blessed Virgin. But, one image is always next to the Virgin: Marcel, who died young, far away and for whom there is no grave. How did he die? His laughing eyes, staring out from a face already obliterated by the sun, give nothing away. Only when the boy uncovers letters that hint at a hidden past, does he decide to learn who Marcel was, and why the circumstances of his death remain so painful.

Format:

Pages:: 119 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Vintage

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0099448661

ISBN13:: 9780099448662

kindle Asin:: B00N6PCOHI

Marcel

Erwin Mortier

3.32/5 (919 ratings)

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The narrator is a ten year old boy who lives with his grandparents in a Flemish village. His grandmother guards the family dead with fierce determination, arranging and re-arranging their photographs in a special cabinet, talking to them and arguing with them. The cabinet is an extension of heaven, with its own purgatory and hell: their place in his grandmother's favour is marked by their proximity to a statue of the Blessed Virgin. But, one image is always next to the Virgin: Marcel, who died young, far away and for whom there is no grave. How did he die? His laughing eyes, staring out from a face already obliterated by the sun, give nothing away. Only when the boy uncovers letters that hint at a hidden past, does he decide to learn who Marcel was, and why the circumstances of his death remain so painful.

Format:

Pages:: 119 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Vintage

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0099448661

ISBN13:: 9780099448662

kindle Asin:: B00N6PCOHI

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