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Il se pourrait qu'un jour je disparaisse sans trace : roman / Thierry Beinstingel.

Van Pelt Library PQ2662.E435 I5 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Beinstingel, Thierry, 1958- author.
Language:
French
Genre:
Fiction.
Physical Description:
285 pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
Paris : Fayard, [2018]
Summary:
"Ils sont trois. Elle enseigne l'allemand dans un lycée mais tente aussi d'inculquer des notions de français à des migrants accueillis par une association humanitaire. Lui a accepté le travail le plus étrange de sa vie : gardien d'une station de pompage même plus en service et si isolée au milieu d'interminables champs de maïs que son employeur a dû l'y faire déposer en hélicoptère. La troisième, encore aux études, gagne sous le manteau un peu d'argent en rendant visite à un garçon autiste que celle qui se présente comme sa mère cache aux services sociaux dans un immeuble de la périphérie voué à une démolition prochaine. Tous les trois vont faire, à des degrés divers, l'expérience de l'effacement, de la perte des repères et des habitudes qui tiennent lieu le plus souvent d'identité. Mais si c'était pour mieux découvrir ce que vivent d'autres gens, et notamment les plus faibles ?"--Page 4 of cover.
They are three. She teaches German in a high school but also tries to instil notions of French to migrants welcomed by a humanitarian association. He accepted the strangest work of his life: the guardian of a pumping station, even more so, and so isolated in the middle of interminable cornfields that his employer had to have it drop by helicopter. The third, still in school, earns a little money under the mantle by visiting an autistic boy that the one who presents as his mother hides social services in a building on the outskirts destined for an upcoming demolition. All three will experience, to varying degrees, the experience of erasure, the loss of landmarks and habits that most often take place as identity. But if it was to better discover what other people are going through,
ISBN:
9782213712017
2213712018
OCLC:
1081220414

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