The novel also brings warmth and shelter from the growing hostilities of our world. Beyond wanting for a black gender A reflection of those spaces of reality where our demons live, it never hurts to let ourselves be carried away by a story that gives us peace or at least a comforting truce. A reading that separates us from cynicisms, nihilisms and so many isms that impregnate us with the inertia of the passage of time.
Is not that Anne Catherine Bomann takes us into a naive plot. It is "only" a story to savor life as an always ideal time to survive our prejudices. All those vices of consciousness, based on disabilities, fears and survival immobility.
Synopsis
The outskirts of Paris, 1948. A seventy-one-year-old psychiatrist, about to retire, is about to receive the last visits arranged for him by Madame Surrugue, his faithful secretary for more than three decades. The old man has led a methodical, routine and isolated existence, never leaving the home of his childhood. He has always been so closed in on himself that he does not even know anything about his secretary's private life, after years and years of seeing her every working day. He also avoids any complicity with his neighbors, whom he avoids, and of course with his patients, whose marital problems bore him so much that, lately, while listening to them, he draws little birds instead of taking notes.
Among the latest visits, however, the faithful secretary has added an unscheduled one: that of a German woman named Agathe, with previous psychiatric problems and a life shrouded in mystery. The appointment will destabilize the orderly world of the old psychiatrist. The breath of the unpredictable will creep into your life and change it forever, if there is still time to change ...
Anne Cathrine Bomann makes her debut with this novel that is as contained and brief as it is ravishingly beautiful and exciting. A work that speaks of loneliness, traumas, indecisions and fears, isolation and empathy, the past that haunts us and second chances… All this through characters constructed with extreme subtlety and a refined and exquisite prose. The text progresses in short, concise chapters that envelop the reader in this unforgettable story.
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