Title : Night Valet - Michel Host - Book

Summary :

Goncourt Prize 1986

Paris. The river. Privileged places and routes, from the Quai de Bercy to the Quai du Point-du-Jour, from the southern suburbs to the Pont-au-Change... An apartment, Quai des Grands-Augustins... In the confinement he shares with his mother, the narrator, Philippe Archer, leads a quest that throws him on the trail of a distant, unknown, or worse, unrecognized mother, and on those of Charles-Evariste, his father, the one his childish imagination made a "hero," a sort of warrior demigod, who disappeared during the turmoil of the war and the Resistance. Paula Rotzen, a young Jewish girl, like Ariane, will guide Philippe until he finds what he is looking for and makes the two decisions that will henceforth guide his existence. If the hymn to the city and its river is at the center of the book, it is because vast and terrible water is needed to launch the vessels: "I love the city like a mother long underestimated. I love it with a cannibalistic love. To feed myself, I tear its flesh which always reforms in its inexhaustible generosity. You are the infinite region. The only region habitable for weak beings, destitute as I am. They find there diversion and food, enough true life, enough illusion to believe themselves alive."

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