LITERARY FICTION
THE STRANGE POWER OF DISASTERS
A topical novel about the fertile social mutations triggered by a pandemic. How a highly lethal disease will allow a mother and a son to find their way back to each other…
FORMAT: 140 x 205
PAGES: 288
WORDS: 64 000 approx.
PUBLICATION DATE: 05/2021
PUBLISHER: Eyrolles
ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE except Chinese
The Work
Marthe is 60 years old, and her mind is confused. She knows it, fights back, organizes herself to better resist. Al that’s what she calls the origin of her troubles: her early Alzheimer’s.
Papers, a notebook, post-it notes, she uses everything she can to remind her of the recent important events, and that allows her to follow the thread of her life. And her life is quite rhythmic, no improvisation possible, everything is calculated.
But her past eludes her: she no longer knows what happened to her life partner. Where has her husband Adrien disappeared? Why didn’t he come back home? And why is his car featured on a photo in a magazine about car accidents?
She decides to improvise herself a detective and investigates without her relatives, her movie-loving neighbor and her beloved nephew, knowing. But that’s without counting on Al…
The Author(s)
Hélène Le Bris lives in Marseille. For this debut novel, she was inspired by her experience with her mother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
Key Sales Points
– A road trip in the labyrinth of memory, full of tenderness and emotion.
– A writing that captures, through the character of Marthe, lost in her memory, the confusion and anguish of the early stages of Alzheimer.