Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues—gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest—visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. But her routine is disrupted by the arrival of the local police chief, who insists on scattering the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. Soon it becomes clear that his inexplicable gesture is intertwined with Violette’s own difficult past. With Fresh Water for Flowers, Valérie Perrin has given listeners an intimately told story that tugs on the heartstrings about a woman who believes obstinately in happiness, despite it all. A number one bestseller in France, it is a heartwarming and tender story that will stay with listeners long after they finish it.
© 2021 Dreamscape Media (Ljudbok): 9781666538328
Översättare: Hildegarde Serle
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 1 juni 2021
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Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues—gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest—visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. But her routine is disrupted by the arrival of the local police chief, who insists on scattering the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. Soon it becomes clear that his inexplicable gesture is intertwined with Violette’s own difficult past. With Fresh Water for Flowers, Valérie Perrin has given listeners an intimately told story that tugs on the heartstrings about a woman who believes obstinately in happiness, despite it all. A number one bestseller in France, it is a heartwarming and tender story that will stay with listeners long after they finish it.
© 2021 Dreamscape Media (Ljudbok): 9781666538328
Översättare: Hildegarde Serle
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 1 juni 2021
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Kerstin
1 sep. 2022
Kommer den på svenska?
malin
9 mars 2022
Underbar. Hade föredragit en brittisk uppläsare.
Jea
1 juni 2022
En underbar bok att förlora sig i.
Samina
26 aug. 2022
Uppläsaren kan ingen franska, dåligt uttal förtar. Franskt lantlighetsromantik. Mysig stundtals och sorglig. Alldeles för osannolika personporträtt och nästan löjlig stundtals för att motsvara de förväntningar jag hade.
Emelie
11 aug. 2023
The book was well written. The narrator was great. Her French was really bad but I didn’t matter to me.
Tina
17 sep. 2022
Absolutely wonderful!
Barbara
6 sep. 2023
One of the best books I’ve read in a long time. And the characters change like in a Dostoevsky novel but it’s easy to keep track of what’s happening only thing I didn’t like was the narrator and her bad French.
Lovisa
13 okt. 2022
Kommer se tillbaka på den som en favorit! Vackert språk, spännande uppbyggd.
Anna
29 aug. 2023
En mycket fransk, vacker och melankolisk.
Henrik
14 juni 2023
Good story, a bit different. Badly read though, very poor French.
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