The author, a specialist educator, has just published a new novel.
In the shade of a red parasol, the vision is wide-angle on the comings and goings of Avenue Feuchères towards the station. Pauline Hirschauer arrives by bike. To tell her story, she has three quarters of an hour, time for a break between two lessons at Enclos-Rey primary school. Casual conversation, to get to know Pauline Hirschauer, whose latest work, Restless waves was released just before summer.
“It’s not easy to talk about yourself! I’m rather reserved, smiles the forty-year-old. Above all, I like meeting people and talking about them, their stories; they teach me about myself, too. I am Breton, from Nîmes by adoption for eight years. In the meantime, my studies took me to Bengal; I am learning Bengali. I met my traveling companion there, we have two boys, twins. For two years, I have been a specialist educator working with children in difficulty, as part of the Ulis system. A very enriching experience of inclusion. It requires a lot of investment, that makes me happy.” She who is passionate about “swimming, hiking, meeting…” Meetings that she “recounted in numerous small travel diaries..
The getaways allow Pauline Hirschauer to discover people from here and elsewhere, to discover their life stories. Valuable, inspiring experiences as a source of writing. Since 2019, the adopted Nîmese has been the author, “author” she says, of several publications: a trilogy, The tribulations of Caméliopenovels Octave, very confidential mission in the EmiratesThen The whisper of pebbles and the latterUnquiet wavess. The story? Cyrielle likes to swim. There she notices “the Man”, the foreigner. The meeting takes place, trust is established. The Man is a migrant from the border paths which descend towards Menton. The coincidences of life challenge… Restless waves is the story of respect for differences, of a contemporary exile, that of the Man from the swimming pool patio. A dive in tranquil waters, to discover, for them, for yourself.
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