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“The world may not be just what our eyes see. It is also what our consciousness experiences when the body is silent.”
Serge Almeida has built a considerable fortune on fear. He fires a gardener over a stain on the driveway, humiliates the woman raising his children, and hasn’t listened to his own wife in fifteen years. When his nine-year-old daughter discovers that her dog’s little wooden doghouse has been left behind at home, he doesn’t replace it—he sends his private jet back to retrieve it.
A turbine came loose during flight.
The emergency landing takes place two kilometers from Roquevieille. An old bus drives by. An elderly woman says something to him that he doesn’t understand: “Sometimes it’s better to embrace what you see than to wait for what you wish for.” The pilot gets on the bus. Serge, meanwhile, orders a luxury car. It’s the last free choice he’ll make for a long time.
In this village, people don’t line up in order of arrival but in order of respect. No one is afraid of him, no one wants his money, and some residents know things about his past that only three people in the world should know. Night after night, he endures exactly what he has put others through—until a nine-year-old girl asks, in the dark, the question only a child of her age could ask: “Dad, if you lost all your money, would you still know how to be our dad?”
He doesn't yet know that this village doesn't appear on any map, nor that all the clocks there are set to the same time.
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Who is this book for?
For readers who enjoy contemporary drama, novels with plot twists, and psychological mysteries. Accessible, vivid writing, gradually building suspense, and dark humor. For ages 15 and up.
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