Sylvie Germain traces a century in the life of the Peniel family and the cycle of birth and death, triumph and loss, madness and passion―from the Franco-Prussian War to World War II―that envelops and buffets their lives. Blending the historical with the supernatural, the comic with the grotesque, the lyrical with the brutal, Sylvie Germain tells the story of humanity's strivings and vanity, of the profound injustices that govern our relations, and of the fundamental strength that allows us ultimately to triumph over carnage and degradation.
Libro delle Notti Serie
Questa serie approfondisce i cicli di nascita e morte, trionfo e perdita, che plasmano i destini umani attraverso le generazioni. Intreccia intricatamente eventi storici con elementi soprannaturali, creando un ricco arazzo di sforzi umani, vanità e profonde ingiustizie. Nonostante la brutalità e la degradazione rappresentate, la narrazione sottolinea in definitiva la forza umana fondamentale e la capacità di superare la sofferenza.
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Night of amber
- 336pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
The first death of the post-war era is that of a child, Petit-Tambour, killed in a hunting accident in the forest. This childhood, which has lost its body, becomes a dark gift of pain and hope to the living, the dead to come, and the trees. A great yew begins to take root on his grave; the whirlwind of berries sown by its branches will carry away Pauline, the mother, while the father, Baptiste, gradually fades away, lost in the endless tears shed by a body that cannot live without her. The second son, Charles-Victor, known as Night of Amber, feels abandoned and is consumed by anger and hatred. The novel tells the story of his journey to the depths of evil until he is finally overcome by the Angel, much like Jacob in the Bible. Following The Book of Nights, Sylvie Germain presents a rich tapestry of strange episodes, where each page seems infused with an apocalyptic breath, and where, as Schelling states, "truth becomes fable and fable becomes truth."