Title: Imagine la pluie
Author: Santiago Pajares
Publisher: Actes Sud
Year: 2021
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 11 x 17 x 2.2 cm
Language: French
Condition: new
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Publisher's summary:
He has never known anything but dunes and the desert, and for all company only his mother, who tells him about a world destroyed by the madness of men. Here there are no roses to tend, no fox or planet to cherish—only what is essential counts: a lean-to to shelter from sandstorms; a few palm trees and a well; lots of lizards—and rare vegetables.
Aware that one day her little prince will desire something else, the mother makes him the keeper of her memories. She shows him what made up life before: the taste of steaming coffee, the scent of flowers, the morning dew on the ferns, the notes of a piano—but also hatred, greed and war. She knows that one day they will have to leave. So when she dies, the boy, struck down by silence, sets off on a long journey to return to the men.
With this post-apocalyptic fable of rare poetry, Santiago Pajares asks what remains of us when bodies are subjected to survival and solitude, and focuses on the inventory of what is truly indispensable to our happiness.