On the balcony of a Normandy hotel room, a man is keeping watch. His gaze is fixed on the cliffs from which his mother jumped to her death 20 years earlier. During the course of a single night, the narrator reflects on his life, searching for traces of his mother, his childhood, his lost youth, his brutal father, his runaway brother, and his years in Paris. He reflects on his memories, sensations, loss—and above all—the love that has saved his own soul from despair.
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"Haunting and intense, Falaises is full of the terrifying loneliness of childhood. Olivier Adam has written a work of stark beauty, troubling in its depiction of loss and longing." TASH AW Writer This very beautiful novel by Olivier Adam resembles a pebble from the coast of Normandy, polished and pure, and yet troubled by a raging sea.A" JEROME GARCIN Le Nouvel Observateur
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Olivier Adam was born in 1974. He grew up in the Paris suburbs and now lives in Paris. He was the recipient of the Goncourt de la Nouvelle, prize in 2004.
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