Back to my #Creuse challenge, w/ a book set in the village of Dun-le-Palestel, where the writer's paternal family comes from.
Learned a new word: cryoscopique (cryoscopy = the determination of the lowered freezing points produced in liquid by dissolved substances in order to determine molecular weights of solutes and various properties of solutions - Merriam-Webster), here applied to Xmas holidays 😂
Picture of Dun by Teytaud, Wikimedia Commons
In the 60s, a young Creusois man from a poor background leaves for Paris to study dentristry (I wish the book kept out of people's rotten mouths!) & falls in with an Ancient Greek theatre company. They try to retrace Ulysses's steps in Ithaca one summer, then decide to build a ship and sail round the world on it. For our young man, that means going back to #Creuse to work as a dentist to earn money to pay for the boat he builds in his barn.
So, I am trying to read books set in the #Creuse département in France this year, and am having a tough time finding titles that appeal AND are available. I've had to branch out to books in genres that I don't particularly like, but with themes I am interested in (in this case, the Enfants de la Creuse - Reunion Island children taken from their birth families under false pretenses to be fostered - and sometimes exploited - in mainland France).
