The Son by Rostain, Michel
The Son by Rostain, Michel
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Author(s): Rostain, Michel
Pub: Headline Book Publishing
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ISBN: 9780755390809 - New
215mm x 133mm x 19mm
Publication: 1 May 2013Pages: 320
A bestseller in France after winning the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman, this poignant, semi-autobiographical tale of parental loss is also a tale of boundless love
We first meet Michel 11 days after the death of his son Lion. Lion was lost, suddenly, to a virulent strain of meningitis and the tragedy 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 Lions 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; its a book about life.