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As long as there is love
by Sandrine Cohen, published on September 6, 2022 by Éditions du Caïman.
His favorite quote:
“To understand is not to accept, to explain is not to excuse, it is to think further.
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Why this book?
Because Sandrine Cohen weaves an exceptional noir novel
where a fine analysis of emotions and feelings brings an extraordinary dimension to the text.
There are no chapters because you don't cut out a life.
The words strike at the heart, at the head, they rush into us.
We feel a form of urgency in the writing as if everything was jostling, as if the author was stripping bare to bring his characters to life, instilling in them his desire to make them exist.
Because the author gives body and soul
to the wounded of life, deciphering with an incisive pen the ins and outs.
It reminds us to avoid hasty judgments, it scratches the justice system which makes mistakes, from time to time, in the name of the law, because we have to follow the texts... And finally, despite the tragic aspect of certain passages, despite dishonest men, despite all that is wrong, it is love that she highlights.
Because this book left me breathless,
an enormous humanity emerges from it and you say to yourself that, you have to believe in it, all is not lost, there are still a few good people on earth, you just have to 'open the eyes…
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Suzanne raises four children alone from different fathers.
She is a fragile woman and the attacks (we are in 2015) will destabilize her.
The impact on his children will be enormous.
Characters.
Suzanne, her four children.
Ishmael her lover.
Mathilde a woman from the neighborhood.
The judges.
Places.
Paris.
The time.
2015 / 2016.
The author.
Sandrine Cohen is an actress, screenwriter and director of fiction and documentaries.
She feeds on reality to feed her fiction.
She published
Rosine, an Ordinary Criminal
, which was awarded the 73rd Grand Prize for Detective Literature 2021.
This book was read by
feeling all the sensitivity of the author throughout my reading.
I was hooked on the pages, so familiar was this little world to me.
I finished reading it devastated.
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