The story
A psychoanalyst, Simon made a profession of listening to others, at the risk of silencing his own story. Thanks to a break in everyday life – a broken bowl – comes the time for an appointment with himself. This time again the new novel by Jeanne Benameur accompanies a flight, observes the patient work of a being who walks towards his freedom. For Simon, the inner journey goes through a real departure, and – from one shore to the other – through distant Japan: its rituals, its art of repairing (the ancestral technique of kintsugi), its flowering…
An initiatory quest which also contains a whole apprenticeship novel built on fire and violence (friendship, youth, the ocean), it is a book of silence(s) and encounter(s), the book very wise, gentle, stubborn, and soon, serene.
The bookseller’s opinion
We know Jeanne Benameur for her previous novels which are all writing gems. Once again, this author enchants us with this latest book which takes us to Japan with a hero in search of himself….”
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Nathalie Iris – Bookstore Words in the margin (La Garenne-Colombes)
The extract
find the 2022 selection of the France Bleu Book Prize – PAGE des Libraires on francebleu.fr