Occasion – A Scent of Cut Grass, Nicolas Delesalle

Through light touches that are like snapshots of life, Kolia looks back on his childhood and those little things that will become everything: a trip in a parrot-blue car on the way to vacation, the girls, Mathilde and Inès, Totor the mushroom farmer and the family home, the discovery of the Thriller music video on television, books, a few grasshoppers, a German Shepherd named Rasputin... Nicolas Delesalle brings all these moments incredibly to life in a debut novel full of emotion, humor, poetry, and depth, where the singular tune of childhood opens onto a universal score.