Just after the end of the world

Presentation

The little girl set her jug ​​down by the roadside and ran to the village, shouting at the top of her lungs, "The Living One, the Living One! She's coming! She's coming to visit us!" At these words, the faces of young and old alike lit up. The crowd thronged at the village entrance to welcome the young woman, who walked with a slow, graceful gait. A horde of children followed her everywhere. All of them had lost their families during the Great Catastrophe.

As the children happily dispersed, the young woman invited the villagers to sit in a circle around her. "O survivors, thank you for your hospitality and your open hearts. What do you wish to know?" A woman, holding a baby in her arms, spoke up: "Tell us the most important quality we must develop to be good human beings and never repeat the mistakes of the past!"

• NIL Editions, April 8, 2021 – 198 pages – EAN: 978-2841116751
• Pocket, January 5, 2023 – 160 pages – EAN: 9782266325516

Editor's Note

Rediscover in this new coming-of-age tale the wisdom and emotion that made The Soul of the World , selling over a million copies in twenty countries. Frédéric Lenoir evokes here the emergence of a new world based as much on the mastery of matter as on the exploration of the mind.