When she was a child, the father said Alice: "If you're lucky with you, all you goest succeed ... "This phrase has haunted Alice as a puzzle to be solved. She is coming lawyer. But she managed her life? With her sisters, the weather has been merciless. Juliet is a widow. Edmee, unhappily married, reads novels pictures plays with passion in a relationship with a student 18. Their children are in open revolt. As had been Sassou, the fourth sister, Sassou's father has hunted. Since no one has heard from him. Is she dead? Is she still alive? When they left Tunisia, thirty years earlier, a thin gold ring, the alliance's father, was pocketed by a customs officer. And the story that forces us to repeat the ancient gestures Edmee push to give Alice his covenant and his ring so it sells. How
overcome the past without denying the father's love?
This is my third novel Shoshana Boukhobza ; it above 6 years ago under the stars, the next to last. If in it, the pen is less worked under the stars, and the third day, we find out this way is both simple and complex things to say simple words, short sentences , making everything very efficiently.
Included are themes common to find transmission, family heritage Intangible exile.
The end of the novel is largely open. We follow the life course of 4 sisters came with their father in France. The exile began. The 4 sisters we do not see that 3, but the fourth we have only snippets of information. Besides, nobody knows what became of Sassou. And therein lies the tragedy. It haunts everybody, but nobody talks about. Besides, everyone has their version of history.
"He wept as he spoke. He wipes his cheek, but the tears flow without being able to retain them. He said he had warned, the only name Sassou is like a splinter in the eye. "
And if it Sassou who could cook a little happiness in this family skinned?
There is a brother, but he left a living in Kibbutz. It is law, and returned shortly.
The three sisters had different lives, they made their choice, more or less unhappy. The father loves them, but like many men, says nothing, then it's obvious. It's hard to understand the ways of each. On their side they want to live in their own way, but how not to betray the family legacy? How to stay the course, taking a different direction?
There are no answers, as primers, this is where I saw an open ending. However, the characters are evolving, open to dialogue, to let go, the father allows himself to speak their mother disappeared early while remaining enigmatic.
"The love I had for your mother cost me two daughters. "
Shoshana Boukhobza-Threshold-188 pages
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