“Existence, for Laurence and Loïc, now had the dreary rhythm of resigned despair
.
»
Laurence, medical secretary, and Loïc, road driver, two forty-year-olds, parents of Yohann Bellanger, 17-year-old environmental activist, who fell into a coma following a CRS charge in a ZAD.
In her second novel, after
The Shepherd
, Anne Boquel, weaves a subtle psychological intrigue, not on the motives and origins of the drama which, after all, are only a narrative pretext, but which revolves around the slow detachment of a couple before their fatal disintegration.
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With its springs, its variations, its tension and its twists and turns, its returns to the past, against the backdrop of daily life in a pavilion located in a town like there are thousands in France.
The wear and tear of daily life over which “
we had to overcome through constancy and equality of soul
”.
Also read: The language of hidden things, by Cécile Coulon: in the hamlet of lost souls
Laurence will take an interest in her son's activism and convictions, investigating, meeting determined or radicalized zadists...
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