One wet afternoon while driving a vanload of books to his shop, Étienne Vollard knocks down a little girl, Éva. Haunted by guilt, Vollard visits Éva in hospital and reads stories to her while she lies in a coma. He also meets Éva's mother, Thérèse, a struggling single parent whose dream is to be faraway and alone. When Éva awakes, the three of them are immediately aware that their lives are forever altered. Pierre Péju’s profound and moving novel is about life, childhood, loneliness and learning to accept and understand our differences.
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Pierre Peju, writer, philosopher and director of studies at the International College of Philosophy, has written four books. The Girl from the Chartreuse, his latest one, met with an exceptional critical and commercial success in France.
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"A Girl from the Chartreuse" is a piece of poetic art. It will make you laugh, cry and scream, holding you engaged for chapters upon chapters.
A story of a child (Eva) longing for her mother ultimately finds the parent she needed all along, in the one person fate had almost destined to be alone...for life, and who almost took her own. Vollard is a compelling character of mystery, genius, and love whose heart is filled by the unmet needs of a little girl who reminds Vollard of himself. Eva represents the purity of that child in all of us who loves, desires and needs the bond of their mother. The stuggle for intimacy and guidance that tugs on the reader's heart strings, as Therese (Eva's mother) tries to understand how to love her child. This book shows how the love of words can translate into the love of child; how words can only describe what the heart needs, but only a child can fulfill.
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