HERITAGE
by Miguel Bonnefoy
translated by Emily Boyce

Published Today

This pocket-sized family saga confirms the rich imagination and storytelling talents of exciting young author Miguel Bonnefoy.

A winegrower ruined by the Great French Vine Blight takes his one surviving vine stock and boards a ship for California. But the new life he has in store is not the one he had imagined – taken ill aboard ship, he is forced to disembark at Valparaíso, where a misunderstanding at the customs post finds him rebaptized after his birthplace, Lons-le-Saunier: the Lonsonier family is born in Chile.

Making the journey in reverse, his sons return to defend the motherland in 1914, and the ghosts of the war live on across the Atlantic, in a house with three lemon trees and a garden filled with birds, for years to come.

From the depths of the trenches to the soaring peaks of the Andes and the shadow of dictatorship, the personal stories of the Lonsoniers collide with key moments in a century of global history, painting a vivid picture of what is both gained and lost through migration.

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Praise for Heritage

Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt, the Goncourt des Lycéens, the Grand Prix de l’Académie Française, the Prix Femina and the Prix Femina des Lycéens

‘Rich, evocative, charming, and quite simply stunning’
Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Last Train to London

‘A lyrical fever dream of a novel. By turns tender and ferocious, meditative and searing, it traces a graceful, looping line across history and generations, in the process laying bare the shared dreams, joys, and traumas that connect us as human beings. I loved it’ Jennifer Cody Epstein, USA Today bestselling author of Wunderland

‘Translated exquisitely into English with beauty and precision, Bonnefoy’s bold and magical book is a triumph’
Patty Dann, author of Mermaids

‘In the space of barely 200 pages, with a remarkable sense for what to tell and what to leave unsaid … Heritage is a novel about uprooting and second chances, the opposition between the forces of life and destruction, the elation of dreams and disenchantment’
Le Figaro

‘Brilliantly combines personal stories with key moments in world History with a capital H … Miguel Bonnefoy’s novels take you on an enchanting journey through space and time’
Lire

‘A 33-year-old Franco-Venezuelan whose storytelling talents never cease to impress’
L’Express

‘A saga as gripping as it is bold’
Lire

‘Best of all are the passionate, tenacious female characters … A dramatic, colourful novel about exile and inheritance’
Libération

‘An extraordinary feel for detail combined with an equal deftness for ellipsis … Magnificent’
Le Monde

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HERITAGE by Miguel Bonnefoy translated by Emily Boyce

Published Today

HERITAGE
by Miguel Bonnefoy
translated by Emily Boyce