A breath of dreams and the magic of childhood.
When Hava takes her great-grandson, Youssouf, to see the fortune teller, she predicts that he will become a prophet. In the small Bulgarian village where Youssouf grows up, Muslims, Jews, and Christians live in harmony, and the traditions of the Book blend into a magical folklore that envelops life like the scent of lavender from the surrounding fields. It is a world that constantly slips between dream and reality. Youssouf explores the sky in a propeller balloon, flies to the moon, daydreams in front of literary classics, and tastes happiness with the elusive Hazal. Then comes adulthood, the departure for the city, the loss of the feeling of completeness. Youssouf returns to the village, attempting to rediscover the lavender boy he once was and, in seven days, like the days of creation, become the novelist he always was.
In the shadow of Persian poetry, Le garçon à la lavande is a novel of striking maturity. A family saga set in the Turkish-Bulgarian world, modernity unfolds in the fertile encounter of traditions.
