L'enfant qui tuait le temps

by Pierre Magnan

Chassés du ciel comme des malpropres par son nouvel occupant, Chronos et Zeus font halte en Trièves, sous une pluie battante. Ils trouvent refuge à L'auberge au bord de la route le soir même où l'épouse du patron accouche d'un petit garçon, Élie. La table étant bonne et les hôtes charmants, Zeus décide de faire un don au nouveau-né : l'enfant aura le pouvoir d'arrêter le temps...

Entre sagesse et merveilleux, une parenthèse pleine d'émotion et de tendresse dans l'œuvre d'un maître du roman noir.

Genres: France

224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published May 1, 2004

About the author

Pierre Magnan was a bestselling French author of detective novels steeped in the sights and sounds of his beloved Provence; to readers, his sleuth, Commissaire Laviolette, was as indelibly linked to the land of lavender as Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse was to the colleges of Oxford.

Magnan’s autumnal years were prolific; he wrote more than 30 books and saw his novels adapted for French television and cinema. He was never afraid to experiment and shifted easily to non-fiction, writing, amongst other publications, a gentle portrait of Giono (Pour Saluer Giono, 1990), a study of Provençal novels (Les Romans de ma Provence, 1998) and two volumes of memoirs. In The Essence of Provence (1998) he followed the story of L’Occitane from roadside soap stand to globally known brand. “La Provence was present in all his books,” noted Marie-Laure Goumet, his editor at Robert Laffont.

Reviews

[Niki · Rating 4 out of 5]

un petit bijou de livre, plein de fantaisie, d'humour et d'immense tendresse