Used book – The Field of No One - Elle Readers' Grand Prize 1996, Daniel Picouly

With nostalgic tenderness and complicity, Daniel Picouly paints the portrait of a boy in a 1950s Parisian suburb. For him, everything is an excuse for wonder. First, there's his father, a boilermaker, to whom he attributes a secret life; then there's the curious gaze he casts upon an omnipresent mother and a dozen siblings. But most importantly, at the end of the street, between a wall and a bramble patch, there's an ordinary place that the naivety of childhood makes magical: nobody's field...