a loving and joyfully nostalgic evocation of a vanished France

Adios, My last session, Mister Nostalgia, The Bouquinistes : the titles of some of Thomas Morales’ books are enough to outline the contours of a sensitivity and a universe whose Tender is the province offers a new entry point. If the writer has signed novels, it is in “chronicler sometimes carried by the tenderness of the world before, sometimes irritated by the forgers of the new world» that he plows his literary furrow. Born in 1974 in Bourges, in the last days of the Trente Glorieuses, Morales is one of those who never really left the country of their childhood and adolescence. Claiming to have “a rearview mirror in the head“, he cultivates through his pen and his daydreams “old-fashioned pleasures”, like village dances, driving on the national 7, watching a film by Philippe de Broca or listening to a song by Claude Nougaro.

His praise of the province, which is also a form of modest autobiography, is nourished by a joyful nostalgia challenging…