“Mom, it’s all black.
» For sixty-three minutes, Mona, a bubbly 10-year-old girl, suddenly loses her sight before regaining it.
But what if his blindness one day became permanent?
“What then should she take with her into the cellar of her memory, into the darkness of her brain?
», asked Thomas Schlesser, professor of art history at Polytechnique and director of the Hartung Bergman Foundation.
Not for long, because the answer is obvious to him.
The child should take as baggage all the beauties of the world that are works of art.
“These little miracles that we find within reach in museums.
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Before the night takes the child, his grandfather will, for a year, introduce him to one work per week.
What emerges is a magnificent and very moving story that Thomas Schlesser tells us in his first novel “The Eyes of Mona”.
A story that has only just been released, but which is already shaping up to be one of the bestsellers of the year.
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