The Desert of Love

Name: The Desert of Love
Author: Francois Mauriac

by Francois Mauriac

Novel depicting two families' mutual anguish rooted in forbidden passionate love

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Francois Mauriac

French author and Nobel laureate whose fiction explored sin, grace, and redemption in the provincial Bordeaux bourgeoisie. Therese Desqueyroux is his masterpiece, a chilling psychological portrait of a woman trapped by convention.

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