No one is a prophet in his time ...

Strange destiny than this novel, awarded the Goncourt in 2012, often praised by critics for its chiseled and incisive writing, but just as often accused of the most various ailments. No, Jerome Ferari didnt wanted to write a psychological novel probing the minds and hearts of his characters. He did not want either write a new exegesis of Sermons dAugustin He put on paper a fable troubled times, a fable of time without certainty and without repository. These times the heart which we all live and where, each, as Matthew and Libero, is trying to build its universe of moral comfort, psychological and even philosophical. Ferari reminds us that this is just the capsules we produce and not néchappent the terrible law of falling empires. Nothing this world nest made to last, everything goes and sometimes sécroule in a din and indescribable horror. The presence dAugustin is not free or inadequate as some would say. There are 1600 years, dHippone bishop reminded the faithful that very foolish those who hope a salvation in this earthly world. His voice still speaks A good read anyway I recommend you!