Nicolas Martin traps a family in a Pyrenean storm for his second novel
In "Famille, je vous hais," discussed on France Culture's Le Book Club, a household is sealed inside a mountain farmhouse during a thunderstorm, caught between ancient tragedy and horror-film claustrophobia.
Nicolas Martin's new novel confines a family to a farm in the Pyrenees for the length of a single storm, according to France Culture, which featured the book on its literary podcast Le Book Club on October 29. The setup, the broadcaster notes, borrows the closed-door intensity of horror cinema while reaching back to the structure of ancient tragedy.
France Culture describes "Famille, je vous hais" as Martin's second novel, one that uses the mixing of genres to examine blood ties under pressure and the weight of patriarchal control within a household. The summary gives no plot details beyond the premise: a family shut in together as the weather turns violent outside.
No publisher, release date or further synopsis was included in the material available to this desk.
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