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Publisher
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Phébus
Parution date
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2002
EAN
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9782859408404
Description
Lily is an exquisite new novel about what inhabits and haunts us throughout our lives. Simon Hagiopan is a prisoner of his past: at 50 he is still trying to better understand the strange love-hate relationship that binds him to his dead mother Lily. Years of doing nothing but this has left him on the verge of madness. His sole occupation is now running the museum he has opened in his mother’s house, dedicated entirely, and obsessively, to her life. Full of her old costumes and memorabilia, it is a strange and grandiloquent hymn to her memory, and the reader travels through it and the novel with a visitor’s curiosity. But in order to liberate himself from this world of make-believe, in order to survive without her, Simon must "penetrate into the most obscure corners" of the past and lay claim to it in order to fully understand what led him to this point. “To understand is to stop hating. To stop hating is to be able to say one day, ‘How easy it is for me to tell you that I love you’.” Lily is a rare and beautiful homage to family ties, memory and truth.
Author
Daniel Arsand : Daniel Arsand is an editor with Éditions Phébus and the author of several novels, including La Province des ténèbres (Phébus, 1998, Prix Fémina du premier roman), En silence (Phébus, 2000, Grand Prix Jean Giono du deuxième roman), Lily (Phébus, 2002), and Des chevaux noirs (Stock, 2006), among others.
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