Albert fifty. Time passes, apparently smoothly, the factory .., home ... It always tinkering: the garden, the vineyard, he adores watches repaired. These watches have the distinction of being on time twice a day even though they stopped. Beautiful metaphor evoking the two great moments in the life of a being: the birth and mort.Albert to the ford of hers. He thinks Suzanne, the two children who came to them (before the war and Henri Gilles after its "return Prisoner") Against the backdrop of "events" in Algeria, the world of Albert is about to tip over. Suzanne "sold off" the old family furniture for kitchen formica, becomes flirtatious, throws her old gowns to wear fashionable dresses, bought the first television ... This TV highlight of all family breakdown coming . Nothing will be like before! ... Each paragraph, this book, all finesse, anger also let fly arrows of intense émotion.Ce our parents, ourselves, our friends, our cousins, our ghosts who come in turn to pull us by the feet
