Regresar / Return

In this autobiographical novel, musician Dominique Ané confronts his conflicted feelings over his hometown, the village of Provins in France’s Seine-et-Marne region. As he explores his attraction and repulsion to the town, Ané relates the events, images, and sensations that marked his childhood, chronicling the difficult integration of a communist family from Ariège, in the southwest of France, as well as the experiences of an only child coming to grips with his own frailty. As he revisits his childhood through the lens of fiction, the author comes to discover the roots of the unique melancholy that characterizes his music.