The Son, Michel Rostain
The Son, Michel Rostain
List: $18.99 | Sale: $13.29
Club: $9.49

The Son

Author: Michel Rostain

Narrator: Stefan Booth

Unabridged: 3 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tinder Press

Published: 05/23/2013


Synopsis

We first meet Michel eleven days after the death of his son Lion. Lion was lost, suddenly, to a virulent strain of meningitis and it's left his father and entire family reeling. We join Michel on his personal journey through grief, but the twist that makes the journey truly remarkable, and tips this true story into fiction, is the fact that we see it all through Lion's eyes.

In a stunningly original blurring of memoir and fiction, THE SON tackles the very hardest of subjects in the most readable of ways. Michel Rostain resolutely ducks away from sentimentality and pathos, and tells his story instead with wit, wisdom and vitality. For this is not a book about death; it's a book about life.

(P)2013 Headline Digital

About Michel Rostain

Michel Rostain lives in Arles. Born in 1942, he works as an opera stage director, and directed the National Theatre of Quimper - Cornwall Theatre - from 1995 to 2008


Reviews

Goodreads review by Filipe

Um livro com menos de 150 páginas que se lê de uma assentada. Narrado pelo filho que faleceu, em capítulos curtos, dá conta do luto de um pai e de uma família. Comovente mas não lamechas, com um humor que resulta na perfeição. Uma leitura leve e ao mesmo tempo pesada. Muito bom. *Livro comprado a 5......more

Goodreads review by Rita

Este livro entrou mesmo dentro de mim, de várias formas. De forma resumida, é narrado por um jovem de 21 anos que morreu de forma inesperada e que conta e observa o luto dos pais (sobretudo do pai). Desde a análise de cada momento passado com os pais na semana que antecedeu a sua morte, passando pelo......more

Goodreads review by Nelson

"O Filho" (2011) de Michel Rostain é um livro sobre a quebra irreversível, por via da morte, do mais importante laço humano — entre pais e filhos — visto a partir dos olhos de um filho que parte deixando os pais vivos. A natureza pressupõe a quebra e prepara-nos para ela por via de um ciclo de envel......more

Goodreads review by Trevor

I loved this book from the first to the last page. The story of a father coming to terms with the death of his son, told from the perspective of his dead son, is both moving and uplifting at the same time. Though it sounds a morbid story, and it is sad, there is a feeling of the celebration of life t......more


Quotes

An original slant on the issues of grief and survival. Unusual, painful and intelligent writing