Two Sisters, by David Foenkinos

Two Sisters, by Foenkinos
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With that vitola of authenticity so laudable today and that differentiates the writers who serve the chronicle of our days with the intention of transcending from the avant-garde, David Foenkinos looks out on the balcony of the novelties with this romance novel turned into existential abysses, in opening to the blinding lucidity of life without a parachute.

And it is that when authors like Foenkinos or Houellebecq They return to the literary showcase (curiously both French, strangely disparate in the plot but similar in the idea of ​​literature as a search in form and substance from any of the genres they face) it is always known that a new story is here to stay, to become at some point in a classic reference of our days.

Sisters is that new rabidly human plot of Foenkinos that confronts us with the edges of life as it brings us closer to its ultimate fear that, disguised as absence or loss, is nothing other than the end or death.

Someone like Mathilde also knows it well, a literature teacher who begins to write her own tragedy and who, clinging to irresistible feelings of fraternal peace, is unable to put her life back together without the fanfare typical of someone who feels displaced.

Synopsis: From one day to the next, Mathilde's happiness collapses when Étienne announces "I'm leaving the apartment." I will not leave you". But Mathilde, professor of literature (at that very moment she is discovering Sentimental education from Flaubert to his students), he understands the terribleness of the phrase.

How is it possible that this man she has loved madly for five years no longer loves her? How not to sink in the face of a void as sudden as it is unacceptable? What future awaits you? Devastated, she lets her sister Agathe take her in in the small flat she shares with her husband Frédéric and their daughter Lili.

Gradually, new, unsuspected ties begin to be woven into this new family bosom where everyone struggles to find a balance. It will take very little for everything to turn around, because Mathilde reveals a new personality, as dangerous as it is unexpected.

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