Date 23 October 2019
Pages 160
Format cm 22 x 28
Price € 16.00
EAN 9782369811398
Publisher Website www.editions-ruedesevres.fr

Dark Pumpkins

Publisher Rue de Sèvres
Age 9-1212-15
Malika Ferdjoukh subtly exposes racism, hatred, and stigma regarding being different through the multiple narrative voices of the children, which unveil the adults' darkness.

Today is October 31st and like every year, three generations of the Coudrier family have come together at the large family home surrounded by forests to celebrate the birthday of the patriarch, Papigrand. Since it’s also Halloween, Mamigrand has sent the kids out to get pumpkins. But out in the middle of the field still enveloped in the morning mist, something’s wrong. A man is stretched out, covered in red spots… Dead. At first, nobody recognizes him. The problem is that in this family, there are at least three possible criminal motives… And three potential murderers. Not to mention all the secrets that have yet to come to light…

  • Sales in France 80,000 copies
  • As of: September 2021