is the story of a place at the end of the world, a small Normandy village lost in the ocean. A man returns after years of absence. The narrator, a woman in her forties, ornithologist, observed, and the approach will help to discover the truth about the shipwreck that killed his parents and brother. In "breaking", it also crosses Max, the village idiot, Lili's Bistro owner, an old Nan who sometimes loses the right, Raphael, who sculpts the pain, his sister Morgan, Theo the old lighthouse keeper .. . As in previous novels, Claudie Gallay interested in people with little, to solitary in the margin, outside the modern world, skinned alive are haunted by ghosts. But much more than men, the main characters of the novel, are the elements, wind and sea, which upset the fates and sow the storm in the hearts and bodies.
Reading these 500 pages to the strange atmosphere, where Greek tragedy interfere in mundane to reveal the violence, the reader can not but be struck by the pace of the prose clear and without emotion Claudie Gallay and then understand the reasons for the success of this fine novel, praised by booksellers.
"Breaking waves" Claudie Gallay, Editions du Rouergue, 525 pages, 21,50 €.
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