melodramatic and heavy

Women suffer, are harassed, humiliated and tortured by their husbands.
This is the story of one of these unfortunate. But it is told with such heaviness: for example the last part of the book is a catalog of all the pettiness and cruelty of the husband of Bénédicte.
A friend who read the same time as I was similarly disappointed.

Really surprising that he received so many prizes.