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Today, "Four granite walls" by Emma de Foucaud, published on September 28, 2021 by Éditions Paul & Mike.
Christian Dorsan, novelist, blogger and contributor to the 20 Minutes
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Four granite walls
by Emma de Foucaud, published on September 28, 2021 by Éditions Paul & Mike.
His favorite quote:
Marcus' dry, sporty ride jolted Juliette out of her melancholy reverie. “I hope we're not going to kill each other after two days, six of us locked up in this gloomy barracks,” he grimaced, driving off again vigorously at the exit of the tollbooth.
Why this book?
Because if confinement will remain etched in our memories,
it is normal for literature to take hold of it.
In this book, three high school friends will confine themselves with their spouse and it is an opportunity to delve into each other's secrets and there is no shortage of them in this group.
Because they are three different couples with things
left unsaid that weigh in their lives and that confinement will reveal.
Confinement, the disease that awaits are omnipresent in this story.
Emma de Foucaud, whom we love for her caustic spirit, gives us a deeply human novel.
Because there is this voiceover that tells an ancient story
with its repercussions in the present.
But who owns it?
This is one of the secrets that punctuates the novel and which questions the reader.
This book is a "setback", an impression that we never live the present moment as it should and that what we experience is always a time behind reality, that the past like our obsessions, are obstacles to taste to fullness.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Three former high school friends come to confine themselves with their spouse to the family home in the depths of the Cotentin.
A confinement and the epidemic which swells, do not spare this ephemeral community.
Characters.
Ella and Tom the couple who welcome Juliette and Markus the Parisians, Pierre and Malik, a voiceover who talks about the past.
Places.
Les Embruns, Ella's family home in the Cotentin, on the edge of the cliffs.
The time.
First containment, March 200
The author.
We especially know Emma de Foucaud as a comedian, stand-up specialist, she wrote her first novel with Paul & Mike.
This book was read with
pleasure mixed with recent nostalgia, and with attachment to the characters in this camera.
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