Parution : 𝐿𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑠

La traduction française du roman historique The Pull of the Stars de l'écrivaine canado-irlandaise Emma Donoghue fait partie de la rentrée littéraire de l'automne 2021. L'œuvre met en scène une infirmière, une médecin et une bénévole qui tentent de sauver les femmes enceintes touchées par la grippe espagnole à Dublin en 1918.

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Dublin, 1918 : three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders — Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work.