Deux romans témoignant de la façon dont la distance peut rappprocher les êtres. The last letter est la correspondance d'un père à ses enfants partis vivre à l'autre bout du monde. Dans The table of saturday philosophers, un groupe d'hommes et de femmes blessés se retrouvent à Nelson, petite ville de Nouvelle-Zélande, pour tenter ensemble de se reconstruire. ©Electre 2025
Pounamu's reflections is a collection of two novellas about how geographic distance brings human beings closer together.
From afar, from farthest away, we see better what is essential in life.
In "The last letter", the first novella, a father writes to his children who have gone to live at the other end of the world.
He presents his feelings, his thoughts and sums up his life's journey for them. With a pure and sincere love he writes one last time to his children. "The last letter" is the final expression of the esteem, respect, hope, and affection that a father gives to his children, the final proof of his love before he goes to count the stars.
In the second novella "The table of Saturday philosophers" we glimpse in small touches the feelings of a group of wounded men and women that destiny has brought together under the charm of Nelson life. Their quest is to find themselves, to find new hope, a new life, a new way of forgetting, to find love and friendship that has either been lost or never lived. "The table of Saturday philosophers" demonstrates clearly that without love, life is an empty shell that slowly disintegrates under the sun, wind and rain of Pounamu.
With each tide hope is reborn on the edge of the waves, and with the passage of time the eternal cycle of life delivers harsh truths about love that unites without separating.
It also shows the enriched lives of island-dwellers who are so far and yet so close to the truth of the world.
Paru le : 18/06/2008
Thématique : Littérature Anglo-Saxonne
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Carène Wood
Éditeur(s) :
éditions SLDS
Collection(s) : Non précisé.
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-0-473-12417-5
EAN13 : 9780473124175
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 256
Hauteur: 19.0 cm / Largeur 13.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.4 cm
Poids: 0 g
Carte fidélité
Mollat Radio
