Title : Around the World - Laurent Mauvignier - book
Summary :
Meeting a tattooed girl in Japan, saving a man's life on a cruise ship in the North Sea, swimming with dolphins in the Bahamas, making love in Moscow, working in Dubai, hunting lions in Tanzania, enjoying a romantic getaway in Rome, meeting pirates in the Gulf of Aden, trying your luck at a casino in Slovenia, getting lost in the jungle of Thailand, hitchhiking to Florida. The only connection between the characters is the event on which all eyes converge in March 2011: the tsunami in Japan, a media drama giving everyone the feeling and illusion of sharing the same world.
But if everything melts into the speed of this globalization where we are chained to each other, if everyone can go very far, he remains first and foremost riveted to himself and to his own stories, in anonymity.
"Laurent Mauvignier doesn't just tell what happened on the day of Fukushima, he goes back in time, there's no rush, he settles into the story, provides a thousand details, compares points of view, describes places and characters, takes the reader into a novel that will stop 15 or 30 pages later to slip subtly into another, located 10,000 kilometers away." Bernard Pivot, Le Journal du dimanche
"His novel speaks of the crazy contradiction of globalization, this lightning-fast circulation of information and people in a universe that multiplies solitudes. It highlights the paradox of accessibility that distances, of communication that isolates, of the swarming that ends up creating a traffic jam. And above all, it shows how everyone has lost their center of gravity, in a world where we are constantly moving, where travel makes every place a possible home. The real feat is to have written such a solid book on tottering. The secret of its haughty and powerful rotation? Laurent Mauvignier's fixed point remains literature. Never fabricated, both instinctive and highly mastered, language is his homeland. And his need to write, so palpable, so absolute, makes each of his novels an infallible survival kit." Marine Landrot, Télérama
- EAN: 9782707329929
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