Tom died when he was four. To stop herself from forgetting him, his mother tries to write Tom's story. She strives to describe it precisely, in details that will lead her and the reader to the truth. Set in the Blue Mountains and Sydney, Tom is Dead takes us to the core of grief and drives this narrator's experience into our hearts.
""Un simple récit, phrase après phrase sur un cahier, pour raconter la mort de Tom, quatre ans et demi, à Sydney, en Australie. Tom a un grand frère et une petite soeur, il a un père et une mère. C'est elle qui raconte, dix ans plus tard, Française en exil, cherchant ses mots dans les Montagnes Bleues."--Publisher's description."
"Set in the Blue Mountains and in Sydney, Tom is Dead is a suspense novel about grief. The narrator's son has been dead for ten years; he was four and a half. For the first time since that day, she spends a few minutes without thinking of him. To stop herself from forgetting, she tries to write Tom's story, the story of his death."
"Een vrouw tracht de dood van haar vierjarig zoontje te verwerken."
"Tom died when he was four. To stop herself from forgetting him, his mother tries to write Tom's story. She strives to describe it precisely, in details that will lead her and the reader to the truth. Set in the Blue Mountains and Sydney, Tom is Dead takes us to the core of grief and drives this narrator's experience into our hearts."@en
"Pour empêcher l'oubli, une mère écrit l'histoire de Tom, son fils mort il y a dix ans, alors qu'il n'avait que quatre ans et demi. Elle raconte les premières heures, les premiers jours, elle fouille sans relâche dans sa mémoire et décrit le plus précisément possible la souffrance, le passage par la folie et le fantôme de son enfant."
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