Used book – Alto braco, Vanessa Bamberger

Alto Braco, "high place" in Occitan, the former name of the Aubrac plateau. A mysterious and harsh name, reflecting the landscapes Brune crosses as she comes to bury Douce, her grandmother, there. She recognizes nothing of the family home, a small, windswept village in Aveyron. After her mother's death, she grew up in Paris, above the Catulle, the bistro run by Douce and her sister, Granita. Tough at work and whimsical, the two women passed on to her a sense of humor and the art of evading the past. But as Brune discovers this cattle-breeding country, both ancient and ultramodern, the truth of her origins and the desire for belonging emerge. Vanessa Bamberger signs here a novel about the connection to the land, transmission, and the secrets at work in our lives.