My Heart Alone Is Not Enough
Publisher
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Éditions P.O.L
Parution date
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2008
EAN
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9782846822275
Description
An intricately plotted and emotionally complex tale of friendship and family ties, and a brilliant evocation of the power of music in our lives.
Mathieu, the author's fictional self, receives a strange letter announcing that his best friend, Milodi, has died and left him a house in memory of their forty-year friendship. Mathieu hasn’t the faintest memory of this “friend” or their supposed adventures in Africa. When he shows up at the house, Milodi’s family embrace him right away, and though they don’t dispell his own doubts or help him solve the mystery, they seem curiously grateful to him for being such a good friend. Despite his instinctive mistrust, his curiosity is roused and he decides to stay for the night in his new house, with the wife, daughter, and two grandchildren of his late friend.
After he listens to a few stories and hears the grandson play En bateau by Debussy, his memory returns little by little and brings back the image of Pavel, a childhood friend with a strange accent and virtuosic piano abilities. It will take him a mild heart attack and a few restless nights to connect the dots between Marseille, Alger, and Abidjan.
Author
Mathieu Lindon : Mathieu Lindon is the acclaimed author of Le Procès de Jean-Marie Le Pen, excerpted in the January 2008 issue of Words Without Borders (www.wordswithoutborders.org). He has written a dozen novels and has been translated into Spanish, Greek, and Italian.
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