Very sensual, sunny, disruptive, candid: secrets, tradiments, expectations, ingenuity, are the main ingredients of the first book that I read by Pierre Lemaitre, I Colori dell'Incendio
I promised to myself of reading also the rest of his production. His way of analyzing reality is in fact so multiform and captivating that will hypnotize you: his characters are well constructed; situations, stories, friendships will keep the reading pleasant. I ordered the book at Club per Voi several weeks ago. I read it pretty calmly because I had many books waiting for my attention. Now, that the situation is more calm, just with three-four books waiting to be reviewed I thought that I could end this one.
Lemaitre wants to launch a big and provocative question to its readers: is revenge a possibility for a new start, when, the characters who, in different moments and phases and modalities, damaged the principal protagonist of this story, and the principal character a genuine, after all, a good person?
It is possible and it is a certainty according to Madeleine Pericourt and the moral of this story.
I start to tell you that my most favorite characters are Madeleine for her vibrant sensuality, naivety and intelligence, Solange for her spontaneity, Paul for his acute thinking and sweetness, and Vladi for being so unique!
The story starts in 1927 when the famous and well-known banker Marcel Pericourt dies in Paris. During the funeral, the horrible tragedy of Paul the son of Madeleine. Horribly injured by a fall and with a sad destiny, Madeleine is the only heiress of an empire. She doesn't know anything of business because, unfortunately, her father grew her up only with the purpose of seeing her close to a man: her role had to be the one of the devoted wife. After the end of her first marriage, Madeleine becomes the lover of the tutor of Paul, André, a potential journalist, a pretty obscure person, as you will see later...
Paul doesn't want to return to life. He is constantly depressed, till to the day in which a polish nurse pretty talkative, explosive, a sort of factotum, is hired. The girl is a passionate of opera and Paul is curious. He becomes an estimator of the genre, he speaks much more, and Solange Gallinato an opera singer, his heroine. Gallinato is attracted by the sad story of Paul and the two will become great correspondents.
While Madeleine is living the love-story with André, the sensuality of Leonce, another worker in that big house seems to conquer her...
Gustave Joubert, the most important man in the staff of Pericourt had received from Marcel the blessing of marrying her daughter. Madeleine, in love for André doesn't want to ruin her relationship: she doesn't like Gustave: Gustave suffers for this situation...
Charles is Madeleine's uncle, politician and a man constantly pennieless: he has two ugly twins, a wife with big belly problems; one day will damage the niece, with the blessing and help of other people.
Madeleine loses everything, house, money, everything, but big will be her revenge and all the people who damaged her, at the end of the games, will be completely destroyed.
The book is sets in Paris in a historical moment where the advent of new dictatorships is a reality.
I don't want to tell more, no spoilers for a reading that will capture you from the beginning to the end.
Anna Maria Polidori
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