The peripheral woman by Sophie Pointurier at HARPER COLLINS is the eighth novel in this new edition of the Prix Première.
The art world seen from both sides of the Berlin Wall. Peter and Petra Wolf have been making the heyday of the German art scene since the end of the 1980s. He is an artist from the East with a mysterious reputation, but of whom we have lost track; she, a former plastic arts teacher, originally from the West, is considered the guardian of the temple. It is she, we think, who brings to light the talent of her companion and, moreover, we do not attribute any other qualities to her. Petra is a divisive personality, as they say: making no concessions, surly, rarely happy, suspicious. The hour of revenge may have sounded since, thirty years after the fall of the Wall, a biography is in preparation about the mythical couple. Suffice to say that when we start to worry about Peter’s disappearance, tongues will loosen and many would be delighted to see the woman in the story – the preventer from going around in circles neutralized.
Presentation of the prize on Thursday March 17, in the presence of the winner with a special program just after the 1 p.m. news.
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