Title : One Summer - Vincent Almendros - book
Summary :
My brother, Jean, had just bought a sailboat and invited me to spend a few days at sea. I wasn't sure it was a good idea for us to go on vacation together. When I say "we," I wasn't thinking of Jean. I was thinking of Jeanne. Jeanne and me. "You shouldn't miss Vincent Almendros's second novel. This 36-year-old author manages the feat, in troubled waters and in 96 pages, of simultaneously containing a love story, a maritime thriller, a tale of brotherhood, and an open-air closed-door novel. All three are ambiguous, and the mystery only emerges, cruel and sneering, on the very last page. Pierre, the narrator, embarks in Naples on his brother Jean's sailboat. The former came with the blonde Lone, his Swedish girlfriend who is finishing a thesis on gender equality. The latter has lived for seven years with Jeanne, the brunette, with whom Pierre was once a lover. The boat glides slowly toward Capri. It is scorching hot. The air is unbreathable. Bodies are oozing. By day, the sea is oily, and by night, tarry. Jellyfish proliferate, traveling back in time and the current with their opaline umbels. Pierre and Jeanne observe each other, brush past each other, get closer, and find themselves in the cabin. Nothing is emphasized. Everything is suggested. An astonishing painter of atmosphere, Vincent Almendros writes in watercolor. It is literature. And the best. (Jérôme Garcin, Le Nouvel Observateur) Un été was published in 2015.
- EAN: 9782707344250
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