Used Book – The Summer Districts, André Stil

In the South of France, a small house perched high up. Below, a valley; further away, the sea. A sixty-nine-year-old man and his partner live peacefully. Abel comes from the North where he worked for half a century in the mines. He retired to the Catalan region and met Lydie – a young woman, barely fifty: they are in love. For life to begin anew, all it took was for him to move from north to south.Abel's slightly mocking wisdom, who has learned everything – except indifference – and a regained childlike innocence, make him discover everything: people, the Catalan language, the mountains, the garrigue, the sea. He tastes fruit, builds a terrace, fishes at sea, digs in search of treasure, and loves Lydie with all his strength. André Stil wonderfully recounts the youthfulness of love in this novel of happiness and the joy of living.