Title : Anna and Mister God - Fynn - book
Summary :
The story Fynn tells today happened about thirty years ago. Fynn was nineteen, prowling the docklands of London's East End one foggy November evening, and he discovered, sitting on a step, a filthy, bruised, and terrified little girl. He took her home and entrusted her to her mother, a vigorous Irish woman who welcomed anyone her children brought her. Anna's chief interest in life was her familiarity with God. "Mister God." She understood the meaning of life and the significance of love. By six, she was a theologian, mathematician, philosopher, poet, and gardener. At seven, she died in an accident, her beautiful face crossed by a small grimace, and she said, "Fynn, I bet Mister God will let me into heaven because of this."
Fynn evokes this whole story by saying of himself: "My name is Fynn. Well, it's not my real name, but what does it matter? All my friends call me Fynn, it's stuck with me... I'm six foot two, I weigh 200 pounds, I love gymnastics, my mother is Irish and my father is Welsh... My favorite pastime? Walking around the docks at night in the fog."
This strange story, told by a strange witness, whose existence the preface writer assures us, resembles a fairy tale: Alice in Dockland or Anna Crusoe in the Island of the Absolute. But no, it's a true story, and that's why it seems incredible.
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EAN : 9782020043700
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