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The son / Michel Robinson ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.

by Rostain, Michel.

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Parental grief -- Fiction.

Sons -- Death -- Fiction.

Death -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.

Fils. English English

196 p. ; 21 cm.

"Originally published in France in 2011 as Le Fils by Oh! Editions"--T.p. verso.

Translated from the French.

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.

Psychological fiction.

French fiction -- Translations into English.

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