L’ultima ferita

Simone Saccucci is in the bookshops again with his third novel, and he does it with a modern-day fable on the redeeming power of stories. Maya is eleven years old and has just moved to a village in Normandy. Her grandmother and grandfather have always lived here; her grandfather spends hours carving wood and reading ancient books kept in a trunk. One day, the girl goes with him to visit the Lady of the Stone House, a healer whose methods border on magic. When the latter scratches her by mistake with a pair of scissors, something inside her opens; every time she scratches herself, Maya can live in fables, legends and myths, witnessing them coming to life through the mouths or hands of their authors. Maya becomes particularly fond of one of them: Marie Cathernie D’AuInoy, born in that same village and author of Fairy Tales. Meeting Marie is a totalizing experience for Marie: she is not the typical dame of her era but a woman who has tried to redeem herself through her creativity. And Maya is ready to pay a price to meet her, the price of wounding herself to allow those stories to enter her.Following the steps of this courageous protagonist and her mentor, we witness the birth of a narrator: in this fantastic (no, fabulous) training course, Maya discovers the tool which will allow her to find something magical even in the real world, narration. And thanks to it, she decides to dedicate herself to the cure of that open wound which is, for her and for everyone, life.STRONG POINTS- A story which opens the doors to a fantastic world, the world of narration.- The story-telling abilities of a raconteur like Simone Saccucci- An exceptional co-protagonist: Marie Catherine D’Aulnoy