Une pure merveille !
Un roman d'une grande beauté, drôle, fin, extrêmement lumineux sur des sujets difficiles : la perte de
l'être aimé, la dureté de la vie et la tristesse qu'on barricade parfois... Elise franco-japonaise,
orpheline de sa maman veut poser LA question à son père et elle en trouvera le courage au fil des pages,
grâce au retour de sa grand-mère du japon, de sa rencontre avec son extravagante amie Stella..
Ensemble il ne diront plus Sayonara mais Mata Ne !
It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, and an eight-year-old boy is removed from his home and family in the middle of the night. He soon learns...
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It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, and an eight-year-old boy is removed from his home and family in the middle of the night. He soon learns that he is the victim of en extraordinary experiment. In an attempt to reform society, the government has divided the population into four groups, each representing a different personality type. The land, too, has been divided into quarters. Borers have been established, reinforced, by concrete walls, armed guards and rolls of razor wire. Plunged headlong into this brave new world, the boy tries to make the best things, unaware that ahead of him lies a truly explosive moment, a revelation that will challenge everything he believes in and put his very life in jeopardy...
Rupert Thomson is the author of six previous novels, Dreams of Leaving, The Five gates of Hell, Air and Fire, The Insult, Soft, and The Book of Revelation. He lives in Barcelona.