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.
Libro de las Noches Serie
Esta serie profundiza en los ciclos de nacimiento y muerte, triunfo y pérdida, que dan forma a los destinos humanos a través de generaciones. Entrelaza intrincadamente eventos históricos con elementos sobrenaturales, creando un rico tapiz de esfuerzo humano, vanidad e injusticias profundas. A pesar de la brutalidad y la degradación representadas, la narrativa resalta en última instancia la fuerza humana fundamental y la capacidad de superar el sufrimiento.
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Night of amber
- 336 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
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."