After the complete disruption of the climate, the temperature often reaches 47 degrees during the day and rarely drops at night. Electricity works sporadically because resources are exhausted. The drone planes are running at full speed and the inhabitants are forced to take climate refugees into their homes.
This is how Thiago, a French teenager, and his family have to shelter a father and his son, Telaki, whose island has been covered by water.
Fleeing the house as often as possible, Thiago meets a strange man, Ötzi, who is hiding in a cave and is visibly afflicted with a strange virus that is gradually driving him into madness. He asks the teenager's help to contact Liz, a young American researcher visiting France. But it may already be too late... And when Thiago is infected, only Liz and Telaki seem to be able to save him.
- A novel with prophetic accents: of a burning topicality, between the problems of climate, refugee migration, and the fear of an epidemic... and as always, a remarkable work of documentation by the author!
Lorris Murail was born on June 9, 1951 in Le Havre, and lives in Bordeaux. A literary and food critic, translator, he is also co-writer for the cinema. He has published some twenty books for children and YA but also novels, novelas and essays for adults...