Writer and screenwriter with a prosperous career in cinema and television, Didier Decoin, was born in 1945. He was only twenty years old when he published his first novel, followed by around twenty more books, including Abraham de Brooklyn (1971, Bookstore Award) and John l ‘Enfer (1977, Goncourt Award).
Writer and screenwriter with a prosperous career in cinema and television, Didier Decoin, was born in 1945. He was only twenty years old when he published his first novel, followed by around twenty more books, including Abraham de Brooklyn (1971, Bookstore Award) and John l ‘Enfer (1977, Goncourt Award).
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n a small village in Japan in the twelfth century, Katsuro, a famous fisherman, supplier of the sacred lakes of the imperial city with carp, the wonderful fish with the “incomparable longevity” who’s skin “reflects the sun like a polished brass”. His unexpected drowning forces his widow, the young and beautiful Miyuki to take over the delivery of carp to the palace. So she starts her long and painful journey between all sorts of dangers and pitfalls…
