Sylvie Germain traces a century in the life of the Peniel family and the cycle of birth and death, triumph and loss, madness and passion―from the Franco-Prussian War to World War II―that envelops and buffets their lives. Blending the historical with the supernatural, the comic with the grotesque, the lyrical with the brutal, Sylvie Germain tells the story of humanity's strivings and vanity, of the profound injustices that govern our relations, and of the fundamental strength that allows us ultimately to triumph over carnage and degradation.
Boek der Nachten Reeks
Deze serie duikt in de cycli van geboorte en dood, triomf en verlies, die het menselijk lot door generaties heen vormen. Het verweeft historische gebeurtenissen nauwgezet met bovennatuurlijke elementen, waardoor een rijk tapijt van menselijk streven, ijdelheid en diepgaande onrechtvaardigheden ontstaat. Ondanks de afgebeelde brutaliteit en degradatie benadrukt het verhaal uiteindelijk de fundamentele menselijke kracht en het vermogen om lijden te overwinnen.
Aanbevolen leesvolgorde
Night of amber
- 336bladzijden
- 12 uur lezen
The first death of the post-war era is that of a child, Petit-Tambour, killed in a hunting accident in the forest. This childhood, which has lost its body, becomes a dark gift of pain and hope to the living, the dead to come, and the trees. A great yew begins to take root on his grave; the whirlwind of berries sown by its branches will carry away Pauline, the mother, while the father, Baptiste, gradually fades away, lost in the endless tears shed by a body that cannot live without her. The second son, Charles-Victor, known as Night of Amber, feels abandoned and is consumed by anger and hatred. The novel tells the story of his journey to the depths of evil until he is finally overcome by the Angel, much like Jacob in the Bible. Following The Book of Nights, Sylvie Germain presents a rich tapestry of strange episodes, where each page seems infused with an apocalyptic breath, and where, as Schelling states, "truth becomes fable and fable becomes truth."