"For me, it is my soul that has stopped."

He who speaks thus is Slimane. Slimane who admires and cherishes his big brother Maxence. With him everyday is a little softer because "it makes dance life. It forces him to fly ever higher, even when she has had enough and wants to smash on the pavement." Maxence who explains that adults "make mistakes, and after they have the strength to start all over." As their mother who love but not enough to take them away from the devil, their father explodes into uncontrollable rages, the wheel moves and spreads terror. Maxence who will prefer one day from the country without adults ...
In reading the second novel Ondine Khayat I more than once thought about Momo's hero life ahead of Emile Ajar Romain Gary alias. Same emotion, same linguistic invention but here the childish voice grinds words better to bend reality to escape it would be only a moment.
Starting from a very strong emotional situation (I had tears in my eyes several times), the author tempers the violence by the evocation of the very colorful Slimane world. Sometimes borders on pathos and can be would it have taken a little shorter passages to give more density to the story but the fact remains that I devoured in one sitting this very moving novel. A real voice, intense and beautiful.