The son
By: Michel Rostain ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter
Contributors: Hunter, Adriana, translator
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780755390793; 9780755390809; 9780755390816
Subjects: Grief; Death; Fiction; French Autobiographical fiction; Adult children; Bereavement; Fathers and sons
Work titles: Fils
Description: 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. This is not a book about death; it's a book about life.
Notes: Goncourt First Novel Prize 2011.