Sandrine Collette, author of another end of the world
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
French author of several black novels, including "Steel knots" (Grand Prize in police literature 2013) and "He stays the dust" (Landernau Prize 2016), Sandrine Collette has just published "Et toujours les Forêts" (J. -C. Lattès) crowned by the Prix de la Closerie des Lilas and the RTL-Lire prize, a terribly current novel in which she imagines the end of our world following a natural ecological disaster, well before the pandemic of today. hui.
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"In the big city where his studies propel him, Corentin plunges without restraint into the lights and the permanent party. Around him, the world is burning. The heat never stops drying up the earth. The streams of his childhood have Dry a long time ago; trees lose their leaves in June. Something is brewing. The night when everything implodes, Corentin miraculously survives, hidden in the bottom of the catacombs. Returned to the surface in a devastated universe, he is alone. animals: nothing remains. Guided by the insane hope of finding old Augustine, Corentin takes the long road to the Forests. " (Presentation of J.-C. Lattès editions)
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