Belmanso

A novel set in 20th century France, about dreams, triumphs, defeats and the infinite ways we can love.

By: Phil Camino

720 pages

Novel

French sample available

Belmanso is a house located in a village without a name because the sign has been ripped off in order to be recycled as a part of a gun or the helmet of a fellow countryman. Just like people survive after wars, places also survive the abandonment, but need more people to come and renew the life that they’ve lost.

The tormented, 20th century France, wounded by the after-effects of the war in Algeria and by the two World Wars, is the setting for this novel. It deals with the eternal need to dream, of triumphs and defeats, but above all, of the infinite ways to love.

About Phil Camino

Of Spanish descent on her father’s side and French on her mother’s, she currently lives with her husband and four children in New York, because life forces her to. But she spends all the time she can in Esles (Cantabria), because she is emotionally tied to both her family and the land itself. She holds a doctorate in Computer Science (Complutense University) and her thesis was on literature. She has published stories and articles in the press. Belmanso is her first novel.