Sibylle Grimbert’s new novel is a moving and surprising book. It recounts the extinction of species through the frank friendship between a young scientist and the last of the great auks.
What if our relationship to animals says a lot about our humanity? Better, and if the astonishing friendship – there are no other words – between a human being and a bird could make us understand how much the extinction of species – if only of a single d between them- concerns us all, because it touches the depths of who we are?
This is what one feels after reading this astonishing and moving novel that takes us to northern Europe, to the frozen landscapes of Iceland, Denmark and the Faroe Islands. The story of a deep attachment, as unexpected as it is visceral, between a young scientist and the last of the great auks.
“The Last of His Own”, the new novel by Sibyl Grimbert is published by Anne Carrière editions.
On the menu of this gourmet café:
Amelie Beaucour went to the European House of Photography in Paris which looks back on the career of an immense Ukrainian photographer: Boris Mikhaïlov.
Fanny Bleichner went to the national theater of Chaillot for the new creation ” Mobius » of the company XY in collaboration with Rachid Ouramdane
Jose Marinho introduces us to the 5th album “Like Neptune” by Californian soul man Son Little.