In his novel “Les intrépides”, Hervé Commère turn your back for once on thrillers. Here he brings a whole building to life, or rather its occupants, strong characters who each follow their own destiny. They each have their ideas, their ways of living and yet they will come together around a single project: save their building threatened with demolition. And we will quickly see that unity is strength. And that being in action, leading a project can bring back sparks of life and happiness and also perhaps fantasy.
So there is 4 apartments in all for these tenants. That of Bastien who dreams of being a businessman and does not want to stay there, Suzanne who has a two-room apartment and who has returned to end her days where it all began, there is Raoul and Valérie Raoul it is the narrator who does not speak almost no longer with his wife, and finally Dave Missouri who therefore has a strange name. They had never met before this story and yet each does not want to give up the ground.
You got it, we’re going to sail in everyone’s memories. Will follow a sort of road trip to the south of France. It’s funny and original. Congratulations to Fleuve editions for having trusted the new Hervé Commère.
And at the same time I would tell you that Fleuve Editions is a safe house, it always publishes very good books. The ones I recommend “Romy and the Lights of Paris” by Michelle Marlya fictionalized biography on the meeting between Romy Schneider and Alain Delon or even “The Waltz of Small Steps” by Claire Renaud where the author goes from table to table in a small Parisian bistro. There are essentially couples, some in the making, others on the verge of breaking up. Everyone projects a life onto their neighbors which is surely not what happens in reality. Delicious. Go there you will not be disappointed.