Bibliograph

Fresh water for flowers, Valérie Perrin ; translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle

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Fresh water for flowers, Valérie Perrin ; translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Fresh water for flowers

Oclc number

1121083606

Responsibility statement

Valérie Perrin ; translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle

Summary

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. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Sole--local police chief--who insists on scattering the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that Julien's inexplicable gesture is intertwined with Violette's own difficult past

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