Split the bear from the bear. Angèle looks up at the beautiful winter sun. A man holds his arms apart, at the top of a building. He jumps into the void. But “An animal instinct made me go back a step, just one”recalls the narrator of Bear night Alexandra Julhiet. Already experienced by a separation, the 39 -year -old woman believes is going crazy. Did the shock of this suicide that also have to kill it caused a delusional puff? She decides to visit her old father, a former psychiatrist, who has lost her head a little and that she has neglected lately. Too happy to see her darling daughter again, he offers to go together to this Patelin of the Pyrenees where Angèle spent her early childhood. She has no memory of it, except for blurred reminiscences, such as this forced isolation, very small. The voice of his mother returns to him repeating to him that it is for his good. Only only a photo of her with her best friend remains. When she recognizes the latter in the village, the classmate of yesteryear claims not to know her … Angèle leads the investigation: the local psychiatric asylum, with bizarre therapies, is held by a powerful family. His father worked there … the author of Because a day of revenge (Calmann-Lévy 2023, taken up by the pocket book, 2024) has the art of turning the pages by instilling an addictive anxiety mixing external threat and internal disorders of its protagonist. Attracted by an unknown disguised as a wild beast during the famous Bear Day, a local rite where young people play the hunter and prey, Angèle wonders who she is.
Alexandra Julhiet
Bear night
Calmann-Lévy
Draw: 7,000 ex.
Price: € 20.90; 366 p.
ISBN: 9782702192733
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