Provence, May 1889. The hospital of Saint-Paul-de Mausole is home to the mentally ill. For years, the fragile have come here and lived quietly behind the shutters and high, sun-baked walls. Tales of the new arrival - his savagery, his paintings, his copper-red hair - are quick to find the warden's wife. From her small white cottage, Jeanne Trabuc watches him ... A tender and savage novel narrated by the wife of the doctor who tended van Gogh in his last, madly frenetic painting years.
A novel about the last years of Vincent van Gogh.