“I grew up facing the murderer of my parents,” the narrator of
La Promesse du broad
announces straight away
.
The identity of this assassin is quickly released: the Atlantic Ocean.
A quarter of a century earlier, in 1974, Aidan, only 11 months old, lost his parents when their boat sank.
It is in Kinslee, Ireland, that the orphan will be raised by his grandparents, taking care to turn their backs on the sea and its pain.
At the age of 26, at the Tate Britain in London, the Franco-Irishman had a revelation in front of a painting by Turner representing another shipwreck.
After spending his life in the company of ghosts, he decides to rub shoulders with the living and return to the sources of the drama, to this small port in Brittany, Locmaricq, off the coast of which the tragedy took place.
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Third novel by Arnaud de La Grange, after
Les Vents Noirs
(Grand Prix Jules Verne 2018) and
Le Huitième Soir
(Nimier Prize 2019),
La Promesse du large
is as much an investigation as a quest.
We follow Aidan to…
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