Benoît Sourty

Je m’enneige

Snowed Out

January 10, 2019
Novel
160 pages
145 × 200 mm
16 €
9782918767831
978-2-9187-6783-1

“Fictions” collection

																Benoît Sourty, Je m’enneige
																Benoît Sourty, Je m’enneige

Two twin brothers of twenty-five years old decide to take their mother, suffering from a serious neurodegenerative disease, out of her clinic where she constantly repeats the only word: “Warsaw”. Ignoring why she is obsessed with the polish capital, they decide to take her in the family Volvo to Poland, where none of them has ever been before, hoping to unlock their family’s secrets. This aborted road trip will allow them to strengthen their bonds, to shed new light on their father’s figure and to accompany their mother in her last wishes. They may also face the—dark—horizon offered by this hereditary disease from which they are suffering too. There are, in this melodramatic novel, very strong characters (the two brothers, the misunderstood father in his solitude), and a simple but tense plot. The subjects, despite their difficulty (illness, euthanasia), are treated with delicacy and subtlety.

The author

Benoît Sourty is a screenwriter and a filmmaker. He is a teaching manager in a film school in Paris. Je m’enneige is his third novel.

Strong points

A serious subject treated in an original way and to which suspense brings lightness.

A drama evoking such films as Ceux qui m’aiment prendront le train of Patrice Chéreau.

January 10, 2019
Novel
160 pages
145 × 200 mm
16 €
9782918767831
978-2-9187-6783-1

“Fictions” collection