The least we can say is that Nicolas Vanier had, alas, a hollow nose. The novel, published by the adventurer and filmmaker, reacts in a really sad way to the summer that France has just experienced; a season of fires, deadly storms, and unparalleled drought, and heralds the winter that is set under the sign. “The End of Plenty”…
baptized The world is upside down. (XO Éditions, published September 15), this book is therefore timely. It tells, in fact, in the form of a tragic farce, the forced installation of a well-to-do Parisian family on a farm in Morvan after a climatic cataclysm that has led to real chaos due to a cascade of scarcity (water, electricity, cash, networks). The father, a cartoon dealer who drives a Maserati and lives with his nose on his screens; the mother who somehow relieves her boredom by doing “heat up his credit card” and the rebellious son, Greta’s soul brother…
Source: Le Figaro
