How transformative can love actually be?

Across the Galician countryside, where there are just as many rain-soaked days as not, villagers face hardships armed with hope and solidarity. Tomás is a successful farmer in this small village, but he’s not happy. His days are busy with work. His nights are a drunken spiral into self-pity and despair. A widower plagued with guilt, his life has been tarnished by tragedy that has pushed him into isolation and loneliness. All of that changes when he sees Suiza.

Warm-hearted and sensual, Suiza lands in the village en route to visit the sea. Her innocently provocative manner disturbs the tranquility of this town. Like all the men who meet her, Tomás is immediately crazy about her. What is initially a simple carnal desire will gradually transform into love and offer the possibility of personal transformation as well.

Bénédicte Belpois
Bénédicte Belpois spent her childhood in Algeria, she now lives in Franche-Comté where she works as a midwife. It was during a long stay in Spain that she began to write Suiza, her first novel.

• Sep 13 2021
  “Not for the faint of heart.”
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