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by Nicolas Vanier published on September 15, 2022 by Éditions XO.
Laure "the happy reader", blogger, bookstagramer and contributor to the reading group 20 Minutes Books, recommends "It's the world upside down!
by Nicolas Vanier, published on September 15, 2022 by Éditions XO.
His favorite quote:
Go ahead.
Taste this for me.
Patrick timidly extends his hand.
His heart is pounding.
The swollen, perfect grains have a purple color.
Under his palm they roll like silk.
– It's a very old variety, a wheat that used to be grown on the hills of Haute-Provence.
An old friend left them to me as an inheritance.
It was he who taught me everything about true nature.
Yes, the real one.
Not the one that has been transformed, or even disfigured to be more precise.
Patrick nods in approval, aware of the value of the offering.
Only a peasant can understand.
Shame washed over him.
He let himself be manipulated by these puppets from Sacramento and the like with their hybrid junk and, like so many others, he left them the field free, it is the case to say it.
Why this book?
Because Nicolas Vanier exploits one of his favorite themes, ecology,
to make us live an extraordinary adventure.
I loved living at the same rhythm as nature, I regret that it only lasted the time of a novel.
I swallowed it, so as not to write devoured.
With the heroes of this book, I have become a Bear Grylls who, with almost nothing, will learn to survive, find tricks and rediscover the riches of his environment.
The subject is sensitive and above all topical, a future that hangs in our face if we continue to go so much against our mother Earth.
Because this novel also brings us a great lesson in humanity.
These two worlds, rural and urban, which collide with Stan the trader and Patrick the farmer, create sparks.
The two can help each other but they still have to want to, forget the resentments, the personal profits which have no interest in living well together.
A novel filled with benevolence at all levels, human and planetary.
It reminds us of the urgency to save the world before saving ourselves.
Because the author makes us aware of all the forgotten riches
that surround us and he invites us to travel.
His feather is light as the wind and warm as the sun.
One can only be charmed and bewitched by this novel.
The future seemed less hostile to me thanks to him.
It is up to men to know how to make good use of it.
A novel to be read and to be read in order to build the future together, hand in hand and save what can still be saved.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
A blackout plunges the world into total disarray.
More water, more electricity, more network and everyone for themselves explodes.
Forced to flee the city Stan and his family migrate to their latest investment: a farm.
Cohabitation and life in rural areas promises to be complicated and yet...
Characters.
Stanislas, trader, his wife Sophie and their son Jonathan live in an ultra-modern apartment with Maria, their maid.
At the bottom of the ladder and the building, Dédé, homeless who lives to the rhythm of nature.
Constrained and forced, they go to live with farmers, Patrick and Joëlle Bouillot, and their children.
Places.
The story begins in the very heart of Paris, in an electric atmosphere, where everyone lives at a mile an hour, to the rhythm of technologies and the openings and closings of the stock market.
A forced exile to the countryside on a farm in the Morvan.
The time.
A future that is taking shape in the present.
The novel takes place “today” in a scorching climate where the environment and its living beings are gradually deteriorating.
Then comes the blackout, ultra modernism is abolished, men will have to relearn how to live in harmony with nature.
The author.
Nicolas Vanier is a French author born in 1962. Married with three children, he lives in Sologne when he is not traveling through the Far North.
He recounted his adventures in several books and films, all of which were hugely successful.
This book was read
in the shoes of an adventurer, feverish while waiting for the rain, impatient while watching the wheat germinate, and benevolent towards my neighbor and Mother Nature.
A novel that sensitizes as much as it amazes.
A must read to live a very beautiful adventure filled with lessons.
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