Loneliness, departing friends, departed children who took their adored grandchildren, emptiness. Cats and dogs with whom it remains to be friends, sleep and talk.
Old Ferdinand hardly greeted his middle-aged neighbor, but, fortunately, the roof of her half-rotten house collapsed. People should help each other, Ferdinand decided and took her to live with him. It turned out that helping others is a good way to while away old age. If you can write a light and funny novel about old age and death, then the Frenchwoman Barbara Constantine succeeded. True, let’s be honest: it is no longer about old age, but about love for each other and a taste for life.
Translation from French by Rimma Genkina.
Alphabet, 256 p.