LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
June 2013 Debut of the Month.
Winner of the Prix Goncourt for Debut Fiction in 2011.
An award-winning bestseller first published in France with a truly unique perspective. Follow a grief-stricken father, after the sudden death of his son - through the son's eyes. This witty, wisdom-laden blurring of memoir and fiction is a remarkable book about life that, like The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly, will be talked about and deserves to be read.
In addition to our Lovereading expert opinion for The Son a small number of Lovereading members were lucky enough to be invited to review this title - 'I have read a lot of books this year, but this is the one that will stay with me.' - Angie Rhodes. Scroll down to read more reviews.
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The Son Synopsis
We first meet Michel eleven days after the death of his son Lion. Lion was lost, suddenly, to a virulent strain of meningitis and it's left his father and entire family reeling. We join Michel on his personal journey through grief, but the twist that makes the journey truly remarkable, and tips this true story into fiction, is the fact that we see it all through Lion's eyes. In a stunningly original blurring of memoir and fiction, THE SON tackles the very hardest of subjects in the most readable of ways. Michel Rostain resolutely ducks away from sentimentality and pathos, and tells his story instead with wit, wisdom and vitality. For this is not a book about death; it's a book about life.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780755390793 |
| Publication date: |
23rd May 2013 |
| Author: |
Michel Rostain |
| Publisher: |
Tinder Press an imprint of Headline Publishing Group |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Michel Rostain Press Reviews
We have asked a select number of members and browsers to review The Son. You can read their reviews below.
Angie Rhodes - Want to read a good, book, that has passion, tears, love, and laughter? A book that can help, you cope with loss? or a book, to give you that warm feeling? Well The Son is that book, I have read a lot of books this year, but this is the one that will stay with me.' Click here to read the full review.
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About Michel Rostain
Michel Rostain lives in Arles. Born in 1942, he works as an opera stage director, and directed the National Theatre of Quimper from 1995 to 2008.
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