From the very first lines, the tone is set: the novel is a cocktail of humor, laughter, tenderness, love, sensitivity, all mixed in a shaker talent.
Indeed, sip this novel with relish. Our widowed, childless, old grumpy and selfish bear sees his life transformed by this forced immobilization. The opportunity for him to reconsider his past, beings that have marked its existence, but also the opportunity to meet new people. Surgeon to the nurse, through a young mother of 14, a prostitute student, an orphan policeman, a follower buddy kouign amann, care aides, everyone enters his life and leaves its mark. Deep imprints, human viscerally, which gradually will reveal another man. The Jean-Pierre cantankerous, nasty missed, gives way to a successful nice. A being furiously endearing. A man who "put a handkerchief over his a priori and poses a tourniquet tight on the flow of his certainties. "A patient that one is eager to love.
Marie-Sabine Roger, offers us a magnificent hymn to life. With an exhilarating verve, new formulas are astonishing as detonating, the author leads us to revisit our certainties, our priorities, our expectations. An intoxicating journey through the human.
I could talk at length yet this novel I literally devoured, laughter in his voice, tears in his eyes sometimes. But that would hold you in front of your screen, while you do not have a minute to lose, whisked in the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to this gem !!!
P. 104: In those who are bounded, stupidity is boundless.
P.133: Pepe was a cantankerous, an old grouch. I'm the same as him, a heart constipated.
This novel has just been awarded the Prize of Express readers. It will be adapted for the screen by Jean Becker.
KARINE FLEJO for The Chronicles of Koryfée.
