Nicolas Mathieu's new book, Le Ciel Ouvert, is a collection of micro-stories, micro-impressions, punctuated illustrations by Aline Zalko. The 2018 Prix Goncourt-winning writer draws an illustrated story that is as personal as it is universal.

“At the end, with small, sensitive, pointillist touches, à la Seurat, it is the portrait of a love, from its birth to its end, but it's not just that,” he says.