Morituri - Patrick Rambaud

"The boardwalk, where it was pleasant to walk, was under water. Here and there floated like debris the buoys of children or the clothes of surprised bathers who had not had time to get dressed, as well as some plastic shampoo bottles.
A strange tide invades the coasts of Trouville. The tourists have deserted the beaches. The water begins to crack the walls and seeps into the cellars of the half-timbered villas with their cream-colored walls. The storm is rumbling. The statue of Flaubert is already floating on the esplanade of the casino. On the horizon, a wave. Will it wash away everything?
Faced with the deluge, Allison, Victor and Martin, in their twenties, on vacation with the latter's grandparents, do not give up their desires. With their feet in the water and their clothes soaked, they devour their seafood platter. But one of them is swallowed up by the sea. Who will be next?
In this catastrophic and whimsical tale, the magnificent author of La Bataille delivers a climatic fable about meteorological disruption. Is it a premonitory rising sea or a temporary nightmare?