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We first meet Michel eleven days after the death of his son Lion. Lion was lost, suddenly, to a virulent strain of meningitis and it's left his father and entire family reeling. We join Michel on his personal journey through grief, but the twist that makes the journey truly remarkable, and tips this true story into fiction, is the fact that we see it all through Lion's eyes.
In a stunningly original blurring of memoir and fiction, THE SON tackles the very hardest of subjects in the most readable of ways. Michel Rostain resolutely ducks away from sentimentality and pathos, and tells his story instead with wit, wisdom and vitality. For this is not a book about death; it's a book about life.
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Michel Rostain lives in Arles. Born in 1942, he works as an opera stage director, and directed the National Theatre of Quimper - Cornwall Theatre - from 1995 to 2008
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This is one of the most emotionally powerful books I've ever read. The deep sadness is layered with hope; showing how friends and family can help each other through grief. It is a roller-coaster of emotion... Highly recommended―www.farmlanebooks.com
Both compelling and jarring...the author treads the line between poignancy and sentimentality, bitterness and joy, memoir and fiction―TLS
An original slant on the issues of grief and survival. Unusual, painful and intelligent writing―Susan Fletcher
'Moving...packed with emotion... you will cry, yes, but you will also laugh as this novel reminds us of the overwhelming capacity we have for the most powerful love'―Psychologies
Transmut[es] humour into savage irony and back again...An honourable, humane and touching work―The Sunday Times
Both compelling and jarring...the author treads the line between poignancy and sentimentality, bitterness and joy, memoir and fiction―TLS
An original slant on the issues of grief and survival. Unusual, painful and intelligent writing―Susan Fletcher
'Moving...packed with emotion... you will cry, yes, but you will also laugh as this novel reminds us of the overwhelming capacity we have for the most powerful love'―Psychologies
Transmut[es] humour into savage irony and back again...An honourable, humane and touching work―The Sunday Times
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