Small Lives

Small Lives ( Vies minuscules ), Pierre Michon’s first novel, won the Prix France Culture. Michon explains that he wrote it "to save my own skin. I felt in my body that my life was turning around. This book born in an aura of inexpressible joy and catharsis rescued me more effectively than my aborted analysis." Le Monde calls it "his chef d’oeuvre. A bolt of lightening." In Small Lives , Michon paints portraits of eight individuals, whose stories span two centuries in his native region of La Cre