It ''s in 1820, during a celebrated ball at the Baron and Baroness von Kotz their daughter Clara, the unprepossessing physique, meets the beautiful Polish Jozef Zemka and falls madly in love. This son of a confectioner in the face of the angel has just taken over from his uncle to become 'domain administrator.
One night, the very Catholic Clara, the religious extractor agrees to let the steward of his father to join her in bed and steal his flower. This misconduct leads them to celebrate this morganatic marriage that announces the arrival of their first child, "the child of sin" which, to the despair of Jozef, is a little girl.
This vexation will recur more than once because Clara will bear not a girl, but five nubile girls whose destiny is told by this house s''angoisse, tries to understand, feels great empathy for its inhabitants, like that poor Clara abandoned by a husband who deceives the bullies, but fortunately know the love in the arms of the instructor of his daughters, a revolutionary. For revolutions there, they burst in Galicia this little piece of land that excites lusts Austrian, Polish and Russian. This fight for independence, this atmosphere of threat, mystery, and also hope to carry over into the fibers of this house.
Under her white cornices, windows bevels, its Greek temple pediment, this house, which also speaks well of the living and shadows qu''elle has watched several generations taking care to keep all their secrets within its walls, is a wonderful and captivating narrator. We feel the vibrate, breathe, there odors, drafts, each room contains its history. She is fascinated by these women as she condemned the inner life but are overflowing with passion, energy '
Diane Meur wrote a wonderful family saga that takes us on an epic. All the ingredients are there: a house, very endearing, brutal passions and burning and all those for which cross, follow each other with force and passion make that attention does not wane, and that 'this is devours novel of the first page to the last. Beautiful!
