La folie océan

Description

Maya, a biologist specialising in plankton, shares her life with Bruno, who works in the same laboratory as her in Paris. She also has an open relationship with Quentin, a younger man who grew up on the northern coast of Brittany. Now a diver for the Sept-Îles reserve, he tracks grey seals and France's largest bird colony, populated by northern gannets. The son of a fisherman whose business has declined, Quentin campaigns against the industrial trawlers that are depleting marine resources. In the summer of 2019, Maya wonders if it might be time to choose between the two men she loves, especially if she wants a child. When she joins Quentin on the Pink Granite Coast, she is struck by how agitated he seems. It must be said that he has started receiving death threats.

In this book, imbued with a deep fascination for the ocean and the beauty of the life it harbours, Vincent Message explores the conflicts arising from the ecological crisis with a keen sense of the romantic.