Jeanne Pham Tran

De rage et de lumière

Sélection Prix du Roman France Télévisions 2023
Sélection Grand Prix des lectrices ELLE 2023
Finaliste du Prix Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

C’est par hasard, à la faveur d’un documentaire, que Jeanne découvre Jack Preger : un homme hors du commun, fermier au pays de Galles devenu médecin sur le tard. Il arpente les bidonvilles de Calcutta et soigne sans relâche les plus démunis.
La jeune femme part alors en Inde, décidée à écrire un livre avec lui. Mais le vieil homme n’a aucune envie de se confier.
Pendant ce temps, en France, sa mère se bat de toutes ses forces contre la maladie. Pourquoi Jeanne éprouve-t-elle le besoin de partir si loin précisément à ce moment-là ? Que cherche-t-elle à travers Jack ?
Au fil du voyage, des liens invisibles se tissent peu à peu entre les trois personnages, chacun réparant quelque chose chez l’autre, avec ses manques, ses blessures et sa part de lumière.

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Paru le 05/01/2023
Genre : Littérature française

216 pages - 140 x 205 mm
EAN : 9782715260467
ISBN : 9782715260467

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Presentation

Coming across a documentary movie about Jack Preger, Jeanne, the narrator, is deeply moved. Jack was a farmer in Wales before becoming a doctor who decided to go to care for beggars on the streets of Calcutta. Jack is an extraordinary man. Promptly, Jeanne decides to go to meet with him: she wants to write his life in a book.

But in India, the old man, now aged 90, is not easily accessible: resistant, grumpy, misanthropic, he refuses advertising and has not time for her. Jeanne will need great perseverance to coax and win the trust of this personality. Step by step, a relation of confidence is established between the young woman and the doctor.

However, Jeanne would have reasons to let go and give up her search: in France, her mother is battling terminal cancer. Why did she go so far at that moment? By going to meet a doctor who is caring for the street’s needy with rudimentary means, the narrator is fleeing her own mother’s death that modern medicine can’t save…

In this debut novel, Jeanne Pham Tran weaves two stories with lot of delicacy. She gives us a sensitive and moving text which deals with transmission and quest for origins.

Born in 1986, Jeanne Pham Tran studied French and Chinese litteratures. She is now an editor and lives between Bangkok and Paris. De rage et de lumière is her first novel.

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