Caroline Lamarche - The Dark Beauty

While trying to elucidate the fate of an ancestor banished by his family, a woman takes up the story of her own life. Years ago, her husband, her first and great love, revealed to her that he was homosexual. Of the upheaval that this was in their existence as well as the adventures of their respective emancipation, nothing is silenced. This luminous novel offers us a lesson in courage, tolerance, and curiosity too. Never will this free woman have ceased to affirm the power of her dreams against social conventions.\n\nCaroline Lamarche's work testifies to great eclecticism. She notably obtained the Rossel prize with Le Jour of the dog (Éd. de Minuit) and the Goncourt for the short story for We are on the edge (Éditions Gallimard). Le Bel Obscur rose to the final selection of the Prix Goncourt 2025.