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In the summer of 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville journeyed to the very limits of American civilization. The admiration and awe before a still pristine nature and the march of relentless urbanization westward inspired the author in this surprisingly timely narrative that brings the myth of the frontier to life.
Harry, thirty-four years old, dies in tragic circumstances, leaving behind his fifteen-month-old daughter. Forty-two years later, this daughter meets a woman who knew Harry as a child during the Algerian war. Through her narrative, the story of this star-loving father from a great line of doctors unfolds. Exiled from Algeria at the time of independence, they rebuilt a medical empire in France. from scratch. But the seeds of destruction lie at the core of success. Harry meets a woman of incendiary beauty. Their passion will crush everything.
A novel about human bonds and the meaning of freedom, the power of friendship and erotic desire, and the vertigo of the multitude of lives one can live. It follows an intricate pattern of lifelines that unravel and become tangled and sometimes break and unfix, leaving the man alone to travel the long distances he craves.
Through the story of Antonia, the young photojournalist having experienced the struggles within the Corsican independence movement and the war in Yugoslavia, Ferrari writes about the painful strangeness of all kinds of representations and explores the ambiguous links between image, photography, reality, and death.
