YUKO - Novel

"Ronald... Our meeting was also an earthquake, the foretaste of an upheaval in my life, the formal proof that another existence was possible for me. Here is the memory: I walk quietly, I don't think only to me, to my body; I am in my Japanese mind, I wander concentrated in the streets from Kyoto… You collided with me in the Gion district. And I fell backwards." ------ Yuko is almost a hundred years old, she is Japanese and lives on the other side of the globe, in a world with codes and customs very different from those of the West. Yet a friendship starts, like a thunderbolt, between Ronald, this strong man but closed to others and Yuko, an old Franco-Japanese woman. The very nature of their meeting is a cataclysm. With this novel, we travel, we learn, we review our preconceptions, we tame the colors of the world, of people… Japan above all is captivating, narrated in an original way, then Iran, California… We savor the differences; and then we finish the book hating our quiet habits, our too quick judgments. This novel speaks of friendships in the broad sense, and essential loves, across the Channel, beyond all physical borders and the heart. This book is guaranteed to be a hit! Written by Elodie Avati Book printed in France, 200 km from our premises, on Eco-responsible PERFC and/or FSC paper by an Imprim'vert printer.