Title : The Succession - Jean-Paul Dubois - Book
Summary :
Paul Katrakilis has been living in Miami for several years. He has never known such happiness. Yet, he still feels inadequate in the world. Even the Cesta punta, this sport whose beauty transports him and which he practices professionally, can no longer shake off the weight that weighs on his shoulders.
When the French consulate calls him to announce his father's death, he finally decides to face the memory of a family he tried in vain to leave behind.
For the Katrakilis are anything but ordinary: the grandfather, Spyridon, Stalin's doctor, once fled the USSR with a slice of the dictator's brain in his luggage; the father, Adrian, also a doctor, is a strange, seemingly insensitive man; the mother, Anna, and her own brother lived as husband and wife in the large shared house. It is a whole dynasty that seems, in one way or another, passionately devoted to its own extinction.
Paul must now return to France to empty the house. When he comes across two black notebooks secretly kept by his father, he finally understands the meaning of his inheritance.
With In La Succession, Jean-Paul Dubois delivers a heartbreaking story where the nostalgic evocation of happiness blends with the sadness of loss. His elegance, his taste for the absurd, and some of his obsessions remain intact.
- EAN: 9782823610253
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