Title : A Promise - Sorj Chalandon - book

• Summary

We are in Mayenne, a house on the edge of a village. In this house, here are Etienne and Fauvette, an old couple who have never stopped loving each other. The house is silent. The shutters are closed and the door is closed. Night and day, however, seven of them cross the threshold. Seven friends, one after the other, from Sunday to Monday, each in turn and each with their own task. There is the boatswain, a former sailor who runs the village bar, there is Madeleine who, every week, decorates the house with flowers, there is Berthevin who turns all the lights on and off, there is the teacher who recites poems aloud, there is Ivan, the former railwayman, who opens the windows, there is Léo who crosses the village on his bicycle, and then finally Paradis, who winds the small clock. In the attic, like a sentinel, an old lamp watches over the ceremony. This is the story of a promise. The promise made to Etienne and Fauvette. A childhood promise, kept by seven friends, to thwart the greatest of perils. These men swore to cheat death. And then one day, they gave up. They stopped visiting the old house. Because time passed. Because of weariness. Because in the attic, the night light waited for two souls to give in to it. This is the story of a brotherhood.

• EAN : 9782246711711
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