Les quatre morts de Jean de Dieu, Paperback Book, By: Andree Chedid

She would have liked to cry out, to fight, to remove Jean from this end. She would have wanted so much to prolong their ages, to live to the end. May they accompany each other, for a long time, as long as possible and to enter the night together in holding hands Now you had to gradually consider, admit, accept the weight of this cold hand, which no longer had life, which no longer had any meaning. Admit, accept, resign yourself. No, never. It would be like betraying. "From the Spanish Civil War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Andrée Chedid portrays a child of the century in this deep and moving novel which is like the quintessence of all his work.