Title : The Day of the Bees - Thomas Sanchez - book

Summary :

In The Day of the Bees, Thomas Sanchez evokes the violence of despair and the elegiac grandeur of two lives transformed by love and exile. An American art history professor travels to Europe to discover why a famous Spanish painter abandoned this beautiful French woman, who was none other than his muse, in Provence during the Second World War. He thus accidentally unearths a secret buried for half a century: this carefully preserved oath, this spell tinged with eroticism that has resisted everything, even death. Two lovers caught in the infernal machine of history, whose universe implodes under the ferocity of their passion, while at the same time the outside world explodes under the blow of global war. Exploring both occupied France, the stories of the resistance fighters fighting in the shadows, and the painter's contemporary retreat on the island of Majorca, the American professor uncovers a passionate love affair that cannot be separated from art and politics. He finds himself at the heart of a mystery that forces him to probe the enigma of his own desire, from which it emerges that History is written as much by those who love as by those who fight.

• EAN: 9782070425211
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