It is 6.30 a.m. this weekend in May 2019 when blows are tearing the silence.
"National Gendarmerie, open!"
Men - five or six, hooded, dressed in black - surround the Gauthier house.
Hugues, the father, "knows the local gendarmes well, they are not their voices".
Should we open it up to them?
To flee?
His wife's hand, Anna, mechanically turns the lock.
Shadows rush into the building.
They are looking for the son, Leo.
In
A Shard of Eternity
, Valérie Tong Cuong imagines the collapse of a seemingly banal family as the 18-year-old boy is sent to prison.
What does fate hold?
Can we call it that?
In reverse of this incarceration, the reader discovers the past of Anna and her badly cauterized scars ... The author returns for
Le Figaro
on the writing of this breathless novel, freely inspired by the fate of a mother and her son , in which she questions the notion of determinism.
Le Figaro.
- How did you work on this book?
Valérie TONG CUONG.
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