This is the story of a child with black eyes that float in and out of focus, a child soft and round, with translucent, blue-veined legs unable to hold his weight, an eternal baby. This is the story of his place in the Cévennes house where he was born, overlooked by swaying trees and craggy mountains.
This is the story of his siblings: the eldest who spends his days cheek-to-cheek with his baby brother, attuned to the rushing, buzzing, whistling sounds that connect him to the outside world; the sister who rejects him and resents him for consuming the attention of her parents and brother, for turning her family upside down; and the youngest child, whose life unfolds in the shadow of what his brother's might have been.
This is the story of the ancient stones embedded in the courtyard walls, devoted witnesses to the children's lives, who watch over them and tell their tale.
A fable for our time, And the Stones Cry Out delicately paints the portrait of a family adapting to their circumstances, to each other, and to a world not built for difference.
Translated from the French by Ben Faccini
"There is a searing honesty to the narrative . . . There are few novels that evoke the landscape as sensually as this. The mountains, streams, trees and stones are there on every page, even as an unmentioned presence. The landscape underpins everything . . . There is a quiet wisdom in the narration that works brilliantly" - The New European
"A beautiful declaration of love to the modern family . . . vibrant and moving" - Le Figaro
"A powerful ode to resilience" - Les Echos
"Clara Dupont-Monod has abandoned history and the Middle Ages to delicately take up the theme of disability in this deeply affecting novel . . . The most moving work of this literary season" - Le Parisien Weekend
"This very intimate story is, like the mountain that hangs over it and protects it, stark and majestic, at once Huguenot and Claudelian . . . A moving portrait" - L'Obs
"A luminous text which reveals without pretence the extraordinary difficulty, but also the beauty of the difference" - Point de Vue
"Poetic, delicate, tender, Adapting is at once a tragic and luminous tale. A wonderful ode to life" - Le Figaro Magazine
"A hymn to weakness, an incredible cry of faith in life . . . A deeply moving narrative with autobiographical echoes" - La Vie
"Clara Dupont-Monod speaks to our hearts" - Réforme
"Luminous and intensely poetic" - Avantages
"A book overflowing with emotions, with a wild and relentless vitality to rebuild" - Elle
"A breath-taking book about self-knowledge and the strength of sibling bonds" - Page des libraires
"This text is a gem that aptly depicts the love that illuminates and hinders the sibling bond" - Le Point
"One of the most beautiful texts of this literary season . . . The nobility of her writing is dazzling" - L'Express
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This is the story of his siblings: the eldest who spends his days cheek-to-cheek with his baby brother, attuned to the rushing, buzzing, whistling sounds that connect him to the outside world; the sister who rejects him and resents him for consuming the attention of her parents and brother, for turning her family upside down; and the youngest child, whose life unfolds in the shadow of what his brother's might have been.
This is the story of the ancient stones embedded in the courtyard walls, devoted witnesses to the children's lives, who watch over them and tell their tale.
A fable for our time, And the Stones Cry Out delicately paints the portrait of a family adapting to their circumstances, to each other, and to a world not built for difference.
Translated from the French by Ben Faccini
"There is a searing honesty to the narrative . . . There are few novels that evoke the landscape as sensually as this. The mountains, streams, trees and stones are there on every page, even as an unmentioned presence. The landscape underpins everything . . . There is a quiet wisdom in the narration that works brilliantly" - The New European
"A beautiful declaration of love to the modern family . . . vibrant and moving" - Le Figaro
"A powerful ode to resilience" - Les Echos
"Clara Dupont-Monod has abandoned history and the Middle Ages to delicately take up the theme of disability in this deeply affecting novel . . . The most moving work of this literary season" - Le Parisien Weekend
"This very intimate story is, like the mountain that hangs over it and protects it, stark and majestic, at once Huguenot and Claudelian . . . A moving portrait" - L'Obs
"A luminous text which reveals without pretence the extraordinary difficulty, but also the beauty of the difference" - Point de Vue
"Poetic, delicate, tender, Adapting is at once a tragic and luminous tale. A wonderful ode to life" - Le Figaro Magazine
"A hymn to weakness, an incredible cry of faith in life . . . A deeply moving narrative with autobiographical echoes" - La Vie
"Clara Dupont-Monod speaks to our hearts" - Réforme
"Luminous and intensely poetic" - Avantages
"A book overflowing with emotions, with a wild and relentless vitality to rebuild" - Elle
"A breath-taking book about self-knowledge and the strength of sibling bonds" - Page des libraires
"This text is a gem that aptly depicts the love that illuminates and hinders the sibling bond" - Le Point
"One of the most beautiful texts of this literary season . . . The nobility of her writing is dazzling" - L'Express
Формат: Скан PDf
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