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Markus and Frank, both 17, have an accident on Frank’s scooter with another biker that sends them into the hospital. Frank will survive with broken bones while Markus falls into a coma.
This emotionally gripping story is told through Frank’s eyes as an adult looking back...
Markus and Frank, both 17, have an accident on Frank’s scooter with another biker that sends them into the hospital. Frank will survive with broken bones while Markus falls into a coma.
This emotionally gripping story is told through Frank’s eyes as an adult looking back on that tragic summer. We see how the mysterious accident, and Markus’s coma, had such a profound effect on his life. He obsesses over the questions to which he never found answers: Was there only one other person involved in the accident or was there a second man at the scene? How could Markus be so severely injured when the scooter wasn’t going that fast?
With a beautiful prose and an innovative structure, Valérie Sigward’s Markus presque mort exemplifies how a seemingly simple story can be read on several layers. This is more than a tale of a close friendship between two teenage boys, and not merely a story about guilt, remorse and the search for forgiveness.
Sigward’s ending is as powerful as it is surprising. We slowly realize that Markus is not the friend trapped in a coma, Frank is…
Valérie Sigward has published with Julliard: Comme un chien (2000), Dans la chambre de silence (2003), Immobile (2004), La Fugue (2006), and Loin, chez personne (2007).
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