What is your first memory? Are you sure, absolutely certain? Enjoy it: after reading the last Michel Bussi, you will doubt in forever. After four thrillers panting, Black Water Lilies, An airplane without it, Burn in the sand and do not forget, the darling of French (it is ranked 8th in the Le Figaro best-selling novelists) grabs a unique theme in the thriller: the construction of the memory of the child His hero is only three and a half years.. Malone, in kindergarten, says his mom is not her mom. Birth, holiday photos, birthday, all prove the contrary … And yet, a school psychologist will be crazy enough to believe and lead a police commander monopolizes the fugitives on the run after a deadly robbery at Deauville (Bussi, Normandy, his stronghold, they do not change). And Mom is wrong is proving to be an excellent Bussi. Because the king of building what novelist, teacher in college, a specialist in electoral mapping and director of a laboratory of the CNRS sixty people – no less – is bringing his style while renewing his world completely. A universe this time mid-social, hard, on the trail of robbers, half dreamlike, with a blanket speaking, the protagonists to fairytale names – Augresse, Lechevalier, Dragonman. “Between childhood and disillusionment,” says the author, with the theme of memory as “dough” of children, gives us food for thought. “Memory is a black box, he continues. That is to say that we are both determined by what we saw before 5 or 6 years. But what we know, this is what others have told us! ” Intriguing, is not? To those who could barely wait, go with Michel Bussi, live on the Internet Monday from 11 to 18 h 30.
Mom is wrong , Michel Bussi (Presses of the city, 512 pp., € 21.50). Pocket Do not forget (Pocket, 544 p., 7.70 €).
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