You will be a man, my father

It is the hour between dog and wolf, when the day still hesitates with the night. Liam watches for a wolf, a real one, who has come too close to his enclosures. He fires three shots and returns to his horse. Dawn is behind him when he returns home, and realizes that something is wrong. Where is Ava, his wife? She should be out chopping wood, taking care of the chickens… She lies inert, full of scratches. A bear came. Liam screams. Where is her 5 year old son? Where is Aru? There he is, safe and sound, under Ava’s dead body.

The reader is there when Liam, this living hunter “like a beast in the middle of the mountain”, begins his story. He looks at his sleeping child, his blond hair almost white, he guesses his little blueberry blue eyes dreaming and he thinks. “The front no longer exists.” Why his wife rather than him, his son? He has awful thoughts. Should we give it up? To kill him? Man is angry with life the earth the world. And Sandrine Collette…