Books for summer

Pain, loneliness and need for tenderness, two little books tell them beautifully.

“Take my right”. For example, by Denis Soula – Books summer

A novel that speaks of maternal love, of the life of a woman who shattered her life as a mother in a few moments: “I’m going to say the thing from the outset, I am the wicked of the story, I am the criminal, I take a jail”.

Her eldest son died in an accident that she provoked when he returned from a gallant meeting. Nevertheless, “We can hardly do worse as a family tragedy”. For example, In prison, this unnamed woman, this mother who has lost the right to be, confides. For example, She survives unbearable loneliness. Meanwhile, guilt thanks to reading, her memories, the film of her life before with her husband and children.

Ten years later. Similarly, in conditional freedom, she was hired in a books summer cafe not far from her old home and leads a monastic life in a little mansard. His only pleasure. watching for his younger student young student, evening through the windows of the family home: “I especially want to look at him, observe his gestures, hear his voice, feel his enthusiasm”, carried by the hope that he pushes the door of the coffee one day.

The reader in turn hears the word of this fallen mother. those of her husband and her son of their resentments, their difficulties in surviving this drama, his colleagues who gradually become attached to her and appreciate her. Denis Soula. who likes to study family ties knows, in a very refined style, to make us marry the complex emotions of each, of the very shared son: “It is your mother my guy, whether you want it or not”, until this woman who lost everything but tries to books summer “hold straight”.

“You”. by Hélène Gestern

“We never exhaust the mystery, nor the richness, of a being that we love unconditionally and its ability to transform us into a better version of ourselves”.

Hélène Gestern talks about Mimi, her cat to which she devotes a very personal opus, illustrated with photos. Mimi, which she collected, is very pretty. With a highly sought -after breed. “that of the Persians Chinchillas”, it turns out to be “a summary of grace, elegance and balance”. She brings him tenderness, fills his loneliness and “ramparts for his anxieties”. The author does not imagine losing her as she would be “inconsolable”. “unhappy as the stones” and “alone as the desert”.

An ode to the love of animals and the communication that can be with them. Mimi will forever be immortalized thanks to the precise and colorful language of his mistress. A little book where animal lovers will be recognized.

Of books summer our correspondent Françoise Ramillon