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I genitori di Miranda sono inglesi ma vivono nella Francia rurale, in un manoir fatiscente dove nidificano i pipistrelli e proliferano le piante rampicanti. Anche Miranda, attrice teatrale, vive in Francia, e quando va a trovare i genitori affronta con stoicismo gli inevitabili supplizi, dalla temperatura artica della casa alle costolette di vitello conservate dal 1983 e servite con nonchalance.

»Es war wie immer. Ich könnte sie umbringen.« Mit »Boswell«, ihrer alten Tiefkühltruhe, sind sie vor zwanzig Jahren nach Frankreich gezogen: Mirandas Vater, pensionierter Oxford-Professor, der keine Diskussion scheut. Und ihre Mutter, die jede Gelegenheit nutzt, über den Krieg zu sprechen...

A “droll, psychologically astute…unexpected…very funny” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air) and moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter. Miranda’s parents live in a dilapidated house in rural France that they share with two...

‘Hilarious and heartbreaking’ MONICA ALI 'Deeply funny and knowing' MEG WOLITZER 'Witty, moving' ANN NAPOLITANO 'Poignant, funny and brilliantly told' POSY SIMMONDS An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant...