Le fils

Eli McCullough, “the Colonel,” marked for life by three years of captivity among the Comanche, takes part in the conquest of the West, fights in the Civil War and builds an empire. His son Peter, sickened by his father’s devastating ambition, makes a fateful choice during the Mexican Revolution that overturns his destiny and that of his family. Jeanne-Anne, Peter’s granddaughter, ruthless and ambitious, finds herself at the head of one of the country’s greatest fortunes. From 1850 to the present, a staggering epic of the human condition and the meaning of History, told through three generations of a Texas family. Winner of the 2015 Prix Littérature-monde.