The Patience Stone - format ePub

" L'exil ne s'écrit pas. Il se vit.Alors j'ai pris le calame, ce fin roseau taillé en pointe dont je me servais enfant, et je me suis mis à tracer des lettres calligraphiées, implorant les mots de ma...

Confinés séparément en 2020, le père et la fille se sont écrits. Leur correspondance s’engage dans le récit d’une famille bouleversée par la politique, l’exil et l’art. @tiq Alice, Tous ces mots pour...

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syngué sabour, n.f. (du perse syngue «pierre», et sabour «patiente»). Pierre de patience. Dans la mythologie perse, il s'agit d'une pierre magique que l'on pose devant soi pour déverser sur elle ses malheurs,...

Un pont, une rivière asséchée dans un paysage désolé, la guérite d'un gardien mal luné, une route qui se perd à l'horizon, un marchand qui pense le monde, un vieillard, un petit enfant, et puis l'attente....

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