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Clara Reads Proust
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Clara is a hairdresser at Cindy Coiffure, a sleepy French salon with an identity crisis. Her relationship is fizzling out. Her tanoholic boss Madame Habib worships Jacques Chirac and talks longingly of her days in Paris. The highlight of the week was when the dishy technician came to repair the display cabinet. And now Madame Lévy-Leroyer wants to go blonde. Clara can’t help but wonder if there’s more to life . . .
Everything changes when a customer leaves behind the first volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. As Clara reads, she discovers a whole new world, leading her to strike up an unexpected friendship. And slowly but surely, she will work out who she wants to be.
Locations
Reset- France - Burgundy - Chalon-sur-Saône
- A: Ile St Laurent
- B: Cyril Coiffure
- C: Hairstyle side
Travel Guide
Chalon-sur-Saône
There are no strong locations in this novel – the real setting is books and Proust. The village however where most of the action takes place in seems to be Chalon-sur-Saône in Burgundy which is a sleepy little place as is described in the novel.
Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost Time).
Proust was born on 10 July 1871 at the home of his great-uncle in Auteil, Paris. He died in 1922 and He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Clara Reads Proust
Destination: Chalon-sur-Saône, Burgundy Author/guide: Stéphane Carlier Departure Time: 2023
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