#French: Prix Goncourt shortlist “La maison vide”

by Laurent Mauvignier

Finish date: 30.10.2025
Genre: novel (family saga)
Rating: F-
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Good News: None!

Personal:

This year, I chose to read some of the novels selected for Le Prix Goncourt 2025.
I don’t care if this book wins or not…it was endlessly boring, boring, boring. Why use one word when you can use two hundred? What a disappointment!

My God, the long descriptions of EVERYTHING (…that stupid cherry tree….branches, shaving of paint from the shutters, the letters on a tombstone, the war medal in a box… etc) in an excessively cold clinical style was unbearable.
I don’t shy away from a “chunkster” but this 744 pg book is not worth my precious time!

How do you say in French: I’ve had enough!!
“j’en ai eu ma claque”
DNF = I made it to page 17!