Title : This Changing Heart - Agnès Desarthe - book

Summary :

Facing life, she had the same impression as when she watched the landscape pass by through the train window: if she was facing the direction of travel, the panorama seemed to fall on her, and her frantic eyes did not know which detail to focus on or which line to follow. She felt crushed by the image that did not stay still, constantly changing. Sitting facing the opposite direction, she regained her calm and contemplated the horizon until she fell asleep. So... so, she thought, perhaps one could say that it is the same thing whether one looks towards the future or towards the past. Perhaps that is why I need my memories so much.

Born at the dawn of the 20th century, Rose arrives in Paris at the age of 20 and finds herself thrust into a completely unknown universe. The Dreyfus Affair, then the First World War, breaks out. The Roaring Twenties follow one another. The slums, the bohemian lifestyle, solitude... Rose risks falling at any moment.

Using all the resources of the novel, Agnès Desarthe mixes the whisper of the intimate and the breath of History in this great baroque book which marks her return to fiction.

• EAN: 9782823601992
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