Who lives, seventh novel by Valérie Zenatti (who is also a translator, notably of Aharon Appelfeld), plunges us into the inner tumult of a Parisian, history and geography teacher, who decides, pushed by the effects of the pandemic and the he anxiety of the war in Ukraine, of leaving for Israel on a whim, following in the footsteps of the famous concert given by Leonard Cohen in 1972 in Jerusalem, “to seek peace in the epicenter of the reactor”. Also looking for answers to the questions she has been asking for a long time, obsessed as she is by this concert where the Montreal singer delivers with “gentleness, poetry, intransigence”. Through encounters with strangers and a few ghosts, this woman in search of humanity will face the tragic and age-old reality of war in this region of the world, to the rhythm of “time transformed into a question”. With a certain finesse, the novelist offers us a personal foray into this country “which has become blocks of people who do not want to talk to each other”.
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