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Eight beats of wings
by Laura Trompette, published on March 22, 2022 by Éditions Charleston.
His favorite quote:
There are people we know very well and to whom we never say anything deep.
There are those that we cross furtively and with whom we remove the armor without warning.
The ephemeral sometimes allows more than permanence.
Why this book?
Because it is a choral novel.
Indeed, in each chapter, it is to a woman that we leave the place, the word.
At the start, we discover them in turn and little by little, we discover the link that unites them.
Not a link in the sense that we think but something sometimes subjective and I liked it.
Because this novel is a hymn to women.
They come from all over the world, are linked by a day but above all, they express their convictions in their own way.
We do not remain indifferent to them and we become attached to each of their facets, their character.
They all marked me each in their own way.
Because this novel happens in a single day.
Indeed, Laura Trompette has chosen to tell her different stories in twenty-four hours.
It's like a camera, but in fact not.
With each hour that passes, we follow a different heroine, but in the end, we follow them all at the same time.
Because this novel evokes the Covid, which
is now part of our life and it is not trivial to mention it.
The confinement has had an impact on each of us in its own way, just like on these women.
Because Laura Trompette evokes subjects
which are close to her heart and which are terribly topical.
This novel is a novel about women, for women and about women's subjects.
Of course, the woman that I am is affected by all this but any man could find himself in these stories.
And that is the strength of this novel.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Twenty-four hours of April 24, 2020 seen by eight women around the world.
Nothing connects them and yet, over the pages, they will find themselves linked to each other forever.
Characters.
They are eight: Magali, Ida, Kirsten, Rafaella, Judy, Lucia, Hayley or even Sahana.
But there are also all the people who gravitate around them.
Places.
France, Spain, China, Germany or even the United States.
It's both at home and around the world.
The time.
The story takes place in our time.
The author.
Laura Trompette has been writing since childhood and is now a novelist and screenwriter.
She has published eight novels, including the acclaimed C'est toi le chat and the psychological thriller Asphyxie, successfully exploring different literary genres.
This book was read with
a panel of indescribable emotions.
It's a novel about women by a woman.
I was transported by each of the heroines and found myself in them.
The themes evoked are strong and topical and the author defends and shares them brilliantly.
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