Tiffany Tavernier imagines the first paid holidays as an epic
In 'La première plage,' part of this year's rentrée littéraire, the novelist reconstructs the emotion of France's first paid vacations as a story at once social, physical and mental.
The novelist Tiffany Tavernier has published a new book for this year's rentrée littéraire, 'La première plage,' which sets out to imagine what the first paid holidays meant to those who experienced them. According to the review site En attendant Nadeau, the novel treats this moment of French social history as a grand epic, working on social, physical and mental registers at once.
En attendant Nadeau singles out the writing itself, describing it as remarkable, though the review summary available to this desk does not detail plot, characters or publisher. Paid holidays were introduced in France in 1936, a reform that reshaped working-class leisure and travel, and Tavernier's novel appears to draw on that history as its emotional core.
No further details on the book's length, release date or publishing house are available from the source material.
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