In the StoryThose Who Are Missing
In Belvaux-sur-Rive, the absent have names. Not birth certificates. Nora Valette knows how to put a room, a register, a calendar in order. Nothing prepares her for a town whose inhabitants remember people who never existed. An empty chair becomes a sign. One private story calls forth another. Soon doubt itself looks suspicious.
Open the novel ↗A moment in the opening pages
They crossed the hallway. The chair bearing Yannis’s name remained behind them. Nora had the absurd feeling that she was turning her back on him too, then corrected herself: on a sheet of paper on a chair.Read the excerpt ↗