Child ghosts!

Published in April 2015, "The book of Alberto" (Quidam editions) is only the fifth novel of the impressive octogenarian Monique Rivet.
Writer rare, it is the author of three novels published in the fifties and sixties. Thereafter she abandons writing and devoted himself to his career as a teacher of literature. A career that led him to teach particularly in the United States.

Sandro and Celine -Young couple- settled in a former winemakers house in Saint-Julien; close to the lagoon and the Cathedral of Maguelone.
Sandro is French-Italian translator, freelance Céline accountant.
Dream Snatches, memories of "father Leleu" (village memory), events of local history, will create from scratch a real police investigation.
Who is Alberto? A tough 1943, an assassin?
When fiction becomes an obsession, the lives of Sandro and Alberto intermingle.

A short and beautiful novel that ends in apotheosis.
It seeks to untangle fact from fiction (reality from fiction) and then -progressivement- all this n 'is more important.
The author shuffleboard with delight to shoot down the very end of the novel cards.
From Great Literature!