This is already the 21st novel by Hélène Legrais. And this time, the Catalan novelist revives the memory of a mythical place in the department that disappeared 40 years ago: the village of wild cabins of Bourdigou. In the 1960s, there were up to 5,000 of them spending their summer in these huts made of planks or sheets. Mainly, the working classes who made makeshift shelters by the sea for summers of freedom where mutual aid and resistance reigned in the face of the announced concreteization of the coast.
This world according to which France dreams of “” Covidian “existed in Bourdigou and it was destroyed
It is this disappeared world that Hélène Legrais explores, by plunging us back into this carefree era from the first fishermen’s huts in Salanque to the last bulldozer in 1979. A journey into the memories of a lost seem , Listen !
“The shed with the star” is published by Calman Levy and the novelist will dedicate her book until Christmas in the department:
Saturday 27 November 2021 in the afternoon from 2 p.m. at the Super U in Prades
Sunday November 28, 2021 at Cultura Rivesaltes
Saturday 4 December 2021 from 2 p.m. at the Alenya Christmas market
Tuesday December 7, 2021 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the La Libambulle bookstore in Prades
Saturday 11 December 2021 in the morning at the Presse Papier bookstore in Thuir
Saturday December 11, 2021 at the Catalan Worker Christmas Bookstore in Perpignan
Sunday 12 December 2021 all day at the Torcatis bookstore in Perpignan
Sunday December 19, 2021 from 10:30 am to noon at the Plaisir bookstore in St Laurent de la Salanque