"Etienne Vollard, owner of the bookshop The Verb To Be, is a red-haired man imprisoned in an enormous body and his solitude. One wet afternoon, driving a vanload of books, he knocks down and seriously injures a little girl, Eva. In the hospital, he meets Eva's mother, Therese, a struggling single parent who lacks maternal instincts and whose dream is to be far away, alone. Both are haunted by guilt: Therese because of her lateness in collecting her daughter, and Vollard because he did not manage to stop his car on time (even if he knows that he could not have avoided Eva). Vollard visits Eva regularly while she is in a coma and reads books to her, while Therese spaces her visits out. When Eva eventually wakes up, she has become mute and is terribly weakened. A few weeks after Eva has been sent to a rehabilitation centre in the Massif de la Chartreuse, Therese gets a job far away and asks Vollard to visit her daughter on her behalf. However, nothing seems to help "La Petite Chartreuse"--Vollard calls Eva that way in reference to the monastic order of the Chartreux - to enjoy life again. She becomes weaker every day to such a point that Vollard decides to find Threse and to take her back to her daughter before it is too late ..."
"Nach einem Unfall liegt die kleine Eva wochenlang im Koma. Der Buchhändler Etienne, der am Unfall beteiligt war, aber unschuldig ist, besucht sie jeden Tag und erzählt ihr Geschichten. Endlich wacht Eva auf. Doch sie wird nie wieder sprechen können."
"Wanneer een boekhandelaar een meisje aanrijdt, voelt hij zich zo verantwoordelijk voor het ongeluk dat hij haar blijft bezoeken als ze in coma raakt."
"Etienne Vollard, libraire, a renversé avec sa camionnette une petite fille. Au chevet de la petite Eva qui est plongée dans le coma, il raconte des récits qu'il a en mémoire. Lorsque la fillette est rétablie, ils parcourent tous deux le massif de la Grande Chartreuse. Prix du livre Inter 2003."
"Etienne Vollard, libraire, a renversé avec sa camionnette une petite fille. Au chevet de la petite Eva qui est plongée dans le coma, il raconte des récits qu'il a en mémoire. Lorsque la fillette est rétablie ils parcourent tous deux le massif de la Grande Chartreuse."
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