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Big families is Drion's best novel. In it, the writer, in a very vivid and striking way, gave a cross-section of French society after the First World War: some characters of the novel become like living witnesses of their time.
Imagine four sisters who share everything from shopping marathons and family dinners to the most intimate secrets. Heather, Bridie, Stella and Liddy Palmer – unbreakable, loyal, impenetrable. Or so they think...
The novella was published for the first time in 1961 in the magazine Novij mir and aroused anger among critics, pointing out that it is only "about the narrow, intimate experiences of the heroine".
First American edition. A cult classic about working-class life in post-war Nottingham. For Arthur Seaton, a worker in a bicycle factory, life is one long battle with authority. You don't have to give Arthur more than one chance to foreman.
With the novel My father`s women Agualus, he continues his critical and ironic review of his native Angola.