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by Cathy Borie, winner of the Unknown Authors' Prize in the “white literature” category, initially published on November 20, 2020 by Rémanence editions.

Awarded by some thirty bloggers and literary bloggers, this prize crowns a book that has been self-published or published in a small publishing house during the past year in four categories: white literature, black literature, fantasy and romance.

Her favorite quote:

When she wakes up, only the wolves prove to her that she is alive.

They too proclaim their fear and their deprivation.

They remain his only brothers.

Why is she really afraid of it?

Who else looks more like him today?

Why this book?

• Because this book won the Unknown Authors Prize on December 21

  in the “White Literature” category, which is a guarantee of quality.

  A Thousand Wild Days, both a psychological novel and a novel of anticipation, marked the jury by the realism of the characters, in which we recognize ourselves, even as they are plunged into a post-apocalyptic glacial world.

  Their ambivalence is explored very finely, and the analysis of the story, "without special effects", allows all "possible parallels with our actuality"

• Because this apocalyptic world could be ours in harder,

  more suddenly.

  It puts us face to face with a society that has no more electricity, no more structures following a brutal climate deregulation.

  A glimpse of our near future?

• Because this book shows us how a society falls

  into lawlessness or can reinvent a new way of living in community.

  It's up to us to choose.

  This novel, which we can qualify as anticipation, raises the question of the need to live together, of solidarity to endure daily life and overcome the ghosts of the past, because a world without landmarks brings its share of sordid.

  Tremendous reflection on mutual aid, hope, discouragement, the human being is at the heart of this fiction.

• Because the meeting between two loners

  who drag a heavy past, holds the narration.

  The attachment of these two characters is fragile, necessary for survival and yet this meeting turns into a deep feeling.

  There is always, in Cathy Borie, this delicacy and accuracy in the exploration of human relationships.

  we have to admit, we get attached to Camille and her silences.

  The author excels in exploring feelings and emotions in difficult or hostile contexts.

  She shows us with every book that hope must never be lost.

  
  

The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

 A woman awaits the wolves at nightfall, she is alone in a deserted hamlet since the Great Event, since the world has fallen into chaos and she found herself trapped in the cold with this stranger, Jack.

Characters.

 Camille and Jack, the friends of the past Ange, Pauline, Anto, and the memories of the living before the Great Event.

Places.

 An island in the Mediterranean.

The time.

 Very near future, it could be today.

The author.

  Author and contributor for the

book platform

, Cathy Borie writes novels including

, which won the First Prize in the Draftquest / Librinova or

published at the beginning of the year and which we liked it a lot.

A former teacher who shares her life between Dordogne and Corsica and a novelist to follow.

This book has been read with

 interest, this meeting between these two beings is really fascinating, the world after is distressing and the reader is immersed in a captivating atmosphere from beginning to end.

A real success, Cathy Borie has the talent to describe the complex relationships of her characters.

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