Used Book – L'absolue sécheresse du coeur, Claude Delmas

A return from the New World to the Old: the American city of Boston and a winery in the land of the Catalans of the high hills. Across the Atlantic, dramas have diluted into immensity, while they solidify in the space with the limited and rugged horizons of these southern lands. Absolute dryness of heart or ultimate nobility and dignity of feelings that refuse to yield to emotion? Unforgettable women, strong and harsh, populate this novel; on them rest the conditions of happiness and its impossibilities. An astonishing fugue-like writing style to make palpable the intertwining of memories in time and space. A lot of sensitivity to evoke the dark hours of the Occupation and Liberation, whose stifled and bloody mysteries continue to haunt the narrator. Closing the book, one realizes, spellbound, that this story could be our own.