Loin de Garbo / Far from Garbo

Text: Sigrid Baffert
Music: Alexis Ciesla
Performers: “Le Collectif de l’Autre Moitié”
Narrator: Jean Pierre Darroussin
Illustrations: Natali Fortier
– Grand Prix du disque pour enfant (Children’s Record Grand Prize) from the Académie Charles Cros
– Coup de cœur (Favorite) from the Académie Charles Cros
– Prix du livre-audio jeunesse (Youth Audiobook Prize) from “Lire dans le noir / Radio France”
Darius and Greta, two young lovers who work as tailors, are forced to leave their village, Garbo, and go into exile to escape the rising dictatorship. Old Uncle Raskine accompanies them, wearing his imposing metaphorical coat.