Title: A Shard of Eternity - Valérie Tong Cuong - book
Summary :
Anna Gauthier leads a life sheltered from torment between her pharmacy, her villa overlooking the sea and her close-knit family.
In a volatile social climate, an incident occurs and her son Léo, a high school student with no history, finds himself in trouble with the law. Anna watches helplessly as her world, built brick by brick, crumbles, having measured each of her actions to maintain control.
What happens when a grain of sand jams the machine and shatters appearances for a summer?
Through a portrait of a woman bursting with intensity and emotion, A shard of eternity traces the thread of Anna's life and in one breath questions the walled-up part of a sacrificed childhood that was never to resurface.
"With her captivating thirteenth novel, Valerie Tong Cuong confirms her talent as a writer, her art of shattering appearances." Livres Hebdo
“We expect the best from her and we are never disappointed.” SHE
"Valérie Tong Cuong then plumbs the abyss of guilt and the ravages of repression. Intense, profoundly dark, her novel, whose title we only understand on the last page, grips us by the throat until its astonishing end." L'Obs
“She analyzes with disarming accuracy the fragility of the social contract and the human tragedy playing out on the world stage.” Le Figaro Littéraire
