Un beau jour | Agnès Laurent | Éditions Récamier

EAN : 9782385770952

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Pages : 336

Size : 140 x 205 mm

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On That Day

Agnès Laurent

Release date : 01/02/2024

Luc, Marie, Paule, and Jean’s parents leave for a hike in the mountains and do not return at the end of the day as planned.
In this novel, Agnès Laurent explores the bonds between the siblings who bear the marks of this troubling disappearance and the unshakeable, idealized image of their parents.

August 1970, a violent storm breaks out over the Alps. After leaving for a hike in the Mont-Blanc mountain range, André and Marie Cotraz no longer show any signs of life. Their four children, ages two to twelve, were left behind in the cabin: hours pass, then days and weeks.... August 1970, a violent storm breaks out over the Alps. After leaving for a hike in the Mont-Blanc mountain range, André and Marie Cotraz no longer show any signs of life. Their four children, ages two to twelve, were left behind in the cabin: hours pass, then days and weeks. They grow up, go through adolescence, adulthood, all the while haunted by this question: should they give up the hope of ever seeing their father and mother again?
Spanning fifty years of these siblings’ lives, On That Day examines, through the destinies of Luc, Marie, Paule, and Jean, the weight of absence, the unshakeable, idealized image of their parents, and the relationships between brothers and sisters. In the style of a musical round, the story passes from one sibling to another, from one time period to another, with a common thread: the inability to grieve and to build a life after enduring such a loss. Unless they discover what happened. But will they ever? Will the mountain give up its secret?

Press review :
"I absolutely fell in love with this novel, which totally moved me, and tackles a very difficult theme, namely, how to cope with the disappearance of a loved one when you have no idea what happened to them. This is what the siblings go through, and the author succeeds in making her novel highly realistic, with an emotional charge present at every moment (...) A deeply moving novel, in which the author excels in deconstructing the feelings of her characters in the face of the terrible ordeal they must face. To be discovered without hesitation.” Mavoixauchapitre.fr

"You have to read this novel, a little treatise on life that you can close with a jolt, and whose successive denouements make the reader aware of the need to welcome mutual assistance from family and friends, and the beings present as so many reasons to rejoice, even in the midst of chaos.” Laureline Dupont, l'Express

"Agnès Laurent's undeniable sense of storytelling, the accuracy of her descriptions of moments and places, and the finesse of her characters' psychology, captured in the complexity of its regularities and evolutions, turn us into readers who, at the same time, are carried away by the story and made aware of the reflection it opens up on the question of living through and passing on a family tragedy. Un beau jour is certainly a fine novel." Eliane Le Dantec, Mare Nostrum

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EAN : 9782385770952

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 336

Size : 140 x 205 mm

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