Tombée des nues
Violaine Bérot
I’m going to tell you, Sir, it happened on Monday night, early in the morning, around two o’clock even the date – February twenty-ninth – is strange, don’t you think, a day that won’t exist again for the next four years; if you wanted to erase things without a trace, you couldn’t do better, so it happened that night, and we hadn’t seen it coming, how could we have expected such a thing, and you can’t count on that half-wit Dédé to let the rest of the village know, oh no, you have to wonder if he notices anything at all aside from his cows …
Baptiste and Marion are a happy couple. They took over a farm where they raise livestock on the outskirts of a remote village. One night, Marion is overwhelmed by sudden, stabbing pains, and – to her utter amazement – gives birth to a baby girl. The novel, which describes those astounding days, lets readers hear the voices of all the different characters.
A novel about pregnancy denial. A powerful, captivating text, in a similar vein to Violaine Bérot’s previous books.