Used Book – The Grand Voyage: A Novel, Joseph-T Klempner

Author of several crime novels, including Le Grand Chelem, Joseph Klempner waited fifteen years to write this moving story, on the border between testimony and coming-of-age novel. Autobiographical in inspiration, this extraordinary book, of astonishing emotional power, recounts the final cruise of two brothers, one of whom knows he is condemned by illness. It is through the voice of the sole survivor that the author retraces the journey of these two men aboard a sailboat that will lead them to an improbable destination - somewhere south of Bermuda - and above all to the end of themselves. Together, they will have to face the forces of the ocean, the unleashed storm and an inevitable death. A magical story that seals the rediscovered intimacy between two beings as well as their definitive separation, Le grand voyage is a superb hymn to life.