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Back to school. After bringing an old Bigote Catho closer and a young student embarrassed in the formidable “dog and wolf”, Joffrine Donnadieu forms a new broken arm duo that nothing should have gathered.
Inhabited by voices of characters who invite themselves in his head since his childhood, Marge has failed to find his way in life. To the point of being still accommodated, at 34, in the Parisian apartment in Violette, her younger sister. But his brother-in-law, a real estate developer, ends up getting the spur expelled. Then Marge finds refuge in an abandoned building. She will soon be binding to an old squatter, a former soldier who suffers from epilepsy crises …
If the pen is still as biting, it leaves more room for melancholy
After bringing an old Bigote Catho closer and a young student embarrassed in the formidable “dog and wolf”, Joffrine Donnadieu forms a new broken arm duo that nothing should have gathered. If the pen of the novelist is still as biting, her new novel leaves more room for melancholy, painting the sadness of a world devoted to the Winners, merciless for those who do not enter the mold. By putting his Rock’n’Roll writing in the service of a touching story, our funny literary animal proves that carp and rabbit can make happy marriages.
“To the nights to come”, by Joffrine Donnadieu, ed. Gallimard, 400 pages, 22.50 euros. Released on August 21.
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