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 !
In the 1870s, two ambitious boys from different backgrounds, Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter, find themselves united by a determination to understand...
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In the 1870s, two ambitious boys from different backgrounds, Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter, find themselves united by a determination to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. As pioneering psychiatrists, their quest takes them from an English county lunatic asylum to the plains of Africa, the lecture rooms of Paris and the mountains of Austria and California. They are guided by Thomas's devoted sister, Sonia, and by an ex-patient, Katharina, whose arrival exposes profound differences between them. As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two friends are compelled to a tragic revision of all that they have loved and pursued. Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are.
Sebastian Faulks has written seven novels, including Birdsong (1993). He is also the author of a biographical study, The fatal Englishman (1996).He lives in London, is married and has two sons and a daughter.