Two trajectories between two centuries
In 1984, during a bulky and bourgeois lunch between chic families, Margaux 9 years old, threw himself into the waters of Lake Geneva. Alexis who is his age and is already in love rings the alert and the father of Alexis saves the little girl. Shortly after, Margaux and her mother move to France, where the young girl became an artist and fights against a lot of demons to project herself in a creative and lonely life. For his part, Alexis leads a perfect trajectory: school in Switzerland, preparation, large school and career in New York with ambitious wife and family in all respects. Until the day when, in America which precedes Donald Trump just precedes, the little ethical and murderous practices of his business push him to resign, return to France, divorce and be separated from his daughters.
A dense novel “post” -modernist
Through the double romantic encounter of her characters, Sarah Chiche offers a transverse cup in the life of the upper class in Switzerland, France and in the United States with back and forth between the countries of this triad resolutely anchored in the west in a world that came out of the Cold War to pour into the era that follows the crisis of subprimes. Solid in the portrait and psychologies of her characters, she begins in a very precise style, a language that works with a precision of scalpel. But soon writing and finesse pass in the background and “loving” turns into a social novel, thesis. It’s a shame because we would have liked the thickness and the lightning of shades throughout the 384 -page trip that the author offers us. We are nonetheless hung on the destinies of the two characters. Who does not want to love at 50 yet?