Friend, Tiffany Tavernier

The Friend. One Saturday morning, just like any other, Thierry hears unusual engine noises as he prepares to head to the river. The scene he discovers upon leaving his house is truly unthinkable: helmeted individuals, weapons in hand, police cars, an ambulance. Everything happens very quickly, and it is in a state of shock that he learns of the arrest of his neighbors, the only ones around. When he grasps the monstrosity of the accusations against them, he realizes, stunned, how wrong he was about Guy, with whom he had come to feel so close. Between denial, guilt, anger, and sorrow, an astonishing descent into darkness begins for this taciturn being, whose life had until then unfolded from his house to the factory. His environment brutally devastated, he measures the extent of his solitude. This is the beginning of a long and moving quest, the true subject of this hypnotic novel. At the end of this almost initiatory journey, Thierry will have to answer the question that torments him: how could he not have seen that his only friend was the embodiment of evil? With this magnificent portrait of a man, Tiffany Tavernier, a subtle interpreter of tormented souls, powerfully questions the infinite capacity of human beings to be reborn to themselves and to the world.