After twenty years of marriage, Susan Collie has resigned herself to life with a historian who trembles with pleasure at the discovery of a moldy papyrus or a shard of broken pottery. Just once she’d love a little attention. A restaurant, a movie. Why not--gasp--both! But she’s out of luck. Robert’s work comes first. In light of new sources, he proposes to contest the authenticity of a Caucasian barbarian warrior who’s been dead for the past 1500 years. This is what’s urgent!
The problem is that History is not unrelated to the present. Challenging a national hero in the name of scientific rigueur is just begging for trouble. The unassuming Robert Collie arouses the fury of an entire people whose barbarian traditions remain vigorous. To defend his findings, will the historian-husband be forced to leave his study? To become a man-of-action? He seems so unfit for the real world that his wife might have to lend him a hand.
After the ferociously funny Sorbonne Confidential (Fayard 2007), Laurel Zuckerman offers here a hilarious family adventure and intriguing reflection on the fragile nature of history.
This novel is currently available only in French
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