Hippolyte Borgia Lazard is 16 years old and his brain is inhabited by an octopus.
A moving and unpredictable creature inherited from her mother, the angelic poet Ophélie Lazard. Together, they live at 5, Carrer de la Davallada, where Hippolyte spends his days reinventing the world with his ally Odile, known as “the crazy one”.
Polyte’s summer will be turned upside down by meeting Clément: “That’s when I received the bullet in the stomach, my friend. That’s where I died, for good. Clement. […] My perpetual hanging, never completely finished. Clement. My heart scaffold, my blood asphyxiation. » The duo will become a trio who will roam the city all season, looking for emotions and thrills. With cigarettes under the stars, fabricated expressions and imagined games, Hippolyte, Odile and Clément sail towards a territory on the margins where they are free.
Claude Ferland Milewski’s first novel reveals a language of his own, highlighted by an oversized pen which perfectly serves the author’s dense universe. A charming love story, where the splendid characters seduce us to the point of greatly facilitating this demanding reading.
