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“Suddenly, he turned around. His reddened eyes glinted in the beam of my torch. What you saw, you have to promise me you won’t tell anyone. He said the words in a calm voice, all the more frightening in the circumstances. I didn’t see anything, Sacha, what happened? Promise me, he repeated. The air was damp. The scent of fresh moss rose from the ground. I promise, I said, without really knowing what I was committing myself to.”
In this new novel, we follow the destinies of two boys, from a summer camp in the Landes region in the late 1990s to the corridors of European power today. It is a novel about friendship, childhood promises and the price we pay, as adults, when we give up on our ideals. Running through it is also the story of a generation that grew up believing in the illusion of a peaceful world, before being thrust into a 21st century that has once again become more hostile.
Following Un dissident (winner of the Edmée de La Rochefoucauld Prize) and Simulacre (winner of the Ada Prize), François-Régis de Guenyveau delivers a novel about friendship, invisible loyalties and the price to be paid when we abandon the promises of childhood. The novel has been shortlisted for the Prix du roman Fnac.
“Totem” by François-Régis de Guenyveau (E13) (in French)
Éditions Pauvert
304 pages
€21.90
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