Paperback, 496 pages
15 x 22 cm | 6 x 8.6 in
Text in French, English version expected in Fall 2025
ISBN 9782226487162
From the publisher:
Fifty-two weeks: that's the time Mona has left to discover all the beauty of the world.
This is the time that her grandfather , a learned and whimsical man, took to introduce her , every Wednesday after school, to a work of art, before she lost, perhaps forever, the use of his eyes.
Together, they will travel through the Louvre, Orsay and Beaubourg.
Together, they will be amazed, moved, questioned , captivated by the spectacle of a painting or a sculpture. Borrowing the views of Botticelli, Vermeer, Goya, Courbet, Claudel, Kahlo or Basquiat, Mona discovers the power of art and learns about gift, doubt, melancholy or revolt, a precious treasure that her grandfather wishes to inscribe in her forever.
A great novel of initiation into art and life , the story of a sunny relationship between a little girl and her grandfather, Les Yeux de Mona has a fabulous destiny: translated in more than twenty countries even before its publication in France is an international phenomenon.
Selected for the RTL-Lire Literary Magazine Grand Prix 2024.