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The story starts with Barthélmy a young man interested in science who becomes a pupil of Louis Pasteur, and participates in the science of pasteurisation. His son Jacques horribly mutilated in the first world war uses this knowledge to make a fine wine from the families vineyard which becomes the toast of Paris. His sister Marguerite lives with their relations who own a restaurant in Paris; a beautiful and intelligent woman who with the help of her cat Socrates locates Jaques who has shut himself away in a flat, somewhere in Paris, because of his cruel injuries. Marguerite lives to the age of 107 and becomes the backbone of the family, in her youth while working in the restaurant she has her portrait sketched by Picasso and becomes associated through her art with Diaghilev. The family loses the restaurant after Marguerite's husband Audran, an anthropologist, is tricked by Stavisky the infamous swindler. Their daughter Rose becomes a famous classical pianist and the family retire to the family home in the South of France where Jaques is still making his famous wine to sit out the second word war.
The charm of the book is the way historical event brush or sometimes overwhelm this talented family. The elements of magical realism are not too intrusive and add to the enchantment of the story telling. I warmed to the book the more I read through and so 3.5 stars. ( )