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“The world is perhaps not only what our eyes see. It is also what our consciousness traverses when the body falls silent.”
Serge Almeida has built a considerable fortune on fear. He fires a gardener for a spot on a driveway, humiliates the woman who raises his children, and has not listened to his wife in fifteen years. When his nine-year-old daughter discovers they forgot her dog's little wooden doghouse at home, he does not replace it: he has his private plane fly back to get it.
A turbine fails in flight.
The emergency landing takes place two kilometers from Roquevieille. An old bus passes. An old lady says a sentence to him that he does not understand: “Sometimes, it is better to step into what we see than to wait for what we desire.” The pilot gets on. Serge, meanwhile, orders a luxury car. It is the last free decision he will take for a long time.
In this village, people do not wait in line 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 made others endure — until the question that only a nine-year-old child could ask, in the dark: “Dad, if you lost all your money, would you still know how to be our father?”
He does not yet know that this village appears on no map, nor that all the clocks there are stopped at the same time.
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Who this book is for
For readers of contemporary drama, plot-twist novels, and psychological mystery. Accessible and visual writing, progressive suspense, dark humor. For ages 15 and up.
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