Used book – Rien n'est noir, Claire Berest

"In my efforts to shelter myself within you, I lost sight of the fact that you were the storm. That it was from you that I should have sought shelter.

But who wants to live sheltered from storms?" Frida speaks loud and clear, with her body shattered by a bus accident and her excessive ways of inviting both muerte and vida into every one of her actions. She swears like a trooper, drinks copious amounts of tequila. She loves participating in political demonstrations, putting flowers in her hair, talking about sex crudely, and attending parties lively enough to wake the dead. And she paints.

Above all, Frida loves Diego, Mexico's most famous painter, her insatiable toad, a fatal seducer, who covers walls with gigantic frescoes.

The author portrays the passions, art, and sufferings of the broken painter, this magician of colors and priestess of a liberated femininity. Les Inrocks.

An incandescent novel. Elle.

A splendid and terrible existence fictionalized with panache and style, voracious language and torrid sentences. Télérama.

Elle Readers' Grand Prize 2020.