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“Sheep of the moon”, an infinite life program, letters from a mother who stayed in Brussels, vacations with friends-lovers and an advance on inheritance thanks to dad's start-up.
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Nicolas Garma-Berman, the thickness of the dawn
Belfond, 364 pp., €20.
Nicolas Garma-Berman's second novel sails between Scotland and Switzerland. And the mists of the first contaminate the Swiss landscapes. This book is strange, full of poetry and uncertainty. It's about a dead little girl, the disappearance of a mother, a father losing his mind and the broken friendship of two brothers. Ness is the youngest, he was named by his eldest Roy in reference to the Scottish monster. Reminiscences of childhood come back constantly. Roy and Ness remember their mother Isla, “sheep of the moon” who ate kelp. Later, they go to an Alpine house. Traces of Emily, the drowned girl, raise doubts. At the end, Roy regains his footing in his own way: “As I walked away from the lake, alone in the sleeping town, my skin cooled by the wind, I thought of Ness and his ghosts. I decided I was wrong. We were all ghosts. Him, me and the others. We are all ghosts, I repeated. We are all ghosts and the night pierces us.” F.F.
Jennifer Richard, infinite life
Philippe Rey, 261 pp., 19 €.
Céline and Adrien are married, devoted to digital technology and their 10-year-old daughter has virtual friends. When, for example, things are not going well within the couple, we can follow the advice of a matrimonial diplomacy application. This is the new normal: humans augmented with lines of code. But when Adrien begins to work on an infinite life program and Céline meets Pierre, a former friend from the time of Ly
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