by Jeanne Benameur · Actes Sud Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782330159856
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«La patience des traces» is the novel by Jeanne Benameur, published by Actes Sud in paperback (208 pages, in French).
Simon, a psychoanalyst used to listening to others, one day feels the call of his own story: a broken bowl decides him to leave his city by the ocean and travel to Japan. On the subtropical Yaeyama islands, the encounter with the Itôs and the art of kintsugi shows him that one's own freedom comes through opening up to the other.
Published on January 5, 2022 by Actes Sud; the cover bears the mention of the Prix Roman France Télévisions 2022.
For readers of contemporary French fiction interested in introspection, initiatory journeys and encounters with other cultures.
