Title: A head wild
Author: Marie-Sabine Roger
Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie
Pages: 189
Price: € 13
him, her, a bench in the park. A meeting that gives new meaning to their lives. A romantic love story? Not really. Why is he Germain, 45, tall as a giant, 150 pounds usually dangling in the village of which is officially the "idiot". She is Margueritte, 86 years and not more than 40 pounds, the only one not to make fun but to pay attention in one of his main daily activities: counting the pigeons on the grass.
world Germain has a bar and drinking with friends, he lives in a caravan in the garden the mother with whom he has never really spoken, quirky pastimes, but especially of a few rude words. What current Margueritte is a nursing home for the elderly, but it is always done mostly by books. They are the ones that she's making him read the words and discover the power of imagination, both capable of Squaderno new worlds and give new eyes to look at things ever. Germain, frank and direct person narrator, tells this meeting, the wonder of discovering that the feelings we can learn, to gather to try the wonder of feeling. In spite of everything and everyone, especially the idea that one has of oneself why-is-to say he "can not spend the mower on the heart to uproot the tenderness. "
Marie-Sabine Roger tells a fairy tale with a light touch, without ever slipping into rhetoric which is also lurking in view of the matter, and he gives us a little gem of candor and humor as he tells us how a man and a woman learn to take care each other. Through books. Ode to read. Almost better than a romantic love story.
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