The Catskills Mountains, north of New York. In the mild Indian summer, a young man is walking on a bridge when a car is heading straight for him and hits him.
An opulent house in the Nantes region. In the middle of the night, Catherine receives a call from a stranger. He tells her that her twenty-eight-year-old son Alexis is in a coma. He has already taken two tickets to New York and offers to pick her up. Who is that man ? What is he hiding from her?
Catherine and he don’t know each other but they no longer have a choice. They have to trust each other. The beginning of a long journey on the path to truth. After a night that seems never to end.
A night without dawn by Benoit d’Halluin at XO EDITIONS
Benoit d’Halluin presents here his first novel. A novel that deals with family secrets, but not necessarily in a dramatic sense. Let’s say instead that the character has come to terms with certain realities, and hasn’t told his parents everything. And finally, in the middle of the night, everything suddenly happened for his family.
The author was born in Toronto, arrived in France when he was ten before dividing his life between Paris and New York. Is that why he takes us in this book between Nantes and the Catskills? “I think we never really write, we talk about each other, so quite naturally, I talked about these two places” replies Benoit d’Halluin. “It allows to have an interesting cultural lighting with two very different companies” he continues. Moreover, the story is structured in such a way as to travel with the characters, through three stages: Loire Atlantique / Atlantic / Across the Atlantic.
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