Title: One Year and One Day - Pascal Bruckner - book
Summary :
Jézabel Thevanaz, a young mathematics teacher, must leave the peaceful peaks of Haute-Savoie to travel to Canada. Her father, a former pastor and amateur watchmaker, made her swear on his deathbed to take the watch he designed to a friend in Quebec. A unique piece whose purpose is not to tell the time but to destroy time.
As Jezebel flies over Greenland, the plane is caught in a terrible storm. Forced to divert its trajectory, the aircraft lands at a makeshift airport, lost in the north of the United States. It is pitch black, and the snow, thick and heavy, is falling heavily. Resigned, the young woman finds refuge at the Plazza: an old hotel of immense proportions, twisted like a cathedral. Broken by fatigue, Jezebel rents a room there, believing she can leave the next day. When she wakes up, the nightmare begins. She is told that she hasn't stayed at the Plazza for a day but... a year!
Will she manage to regain her freedom? Will she endure it? Will she really have been cloistered for a year, for one night?
The reader knows no more than the character, lost in this universe of disturbing strangeness.
