Anne-Sophie Brasme

Que rien ne tremble

Let Nothing Shake

April 7, 2021
Novel
252 pages
130 × 210 mm
9782213712185
978-2-2137-1218-5
																Anne-Sophie Brasme, Que rien ne tremble
																Anne-Sophie Brasme, Que rien ne tremble

Sylvia is the mother of Dove. Despite this name chosen for the peace it inspires, Dove is not the wise child Sylvia dreamed of. Dove has a character of fire. A devouring energy. Sylvia, on the contrary, is introverted; she needs silence, solitude. Control. But the force of Dove constantly threatens her balance, forbids her any rest, and ends up overcoming her. Today, Dove is twenty years old, and all is well. She is a blossoming young girl, a festive and sporty student, who is getting ready to enter the police academy as she has always dreamed. Sylvia has prepared everything to make her birthday party perfect. But as the day passes, her thoughts wander. The past resurfaces: the sweet moments and the laughter, but also the tantrums and the screams... Then that terrible memory of “the accident” when Dove was four. Until a shadow interferes in this sunny day and makes reality tremble...

The author

Anne-Sophie Brasme was born in Metz in 1984. She was seventeen years old when she published Respire, her first novel, with Fayard Editions. The book was translated into eighteen languages and adapted in 2014 for the cinema by Mélanie Laurent, with Lou de Laage and Joséphine Jappy in the main roles. She then published Le Carnaval des monstres in 2005 (Prix Feuille d’or de la ville de Nancy), followed by Notre Vie antérieure in 2014 and Que rien ne tremble in 2021, again published by Fayard.

April 7, 2021
Novel
252 pages
130 × 210 mm
9782213712185
978-2-2137-1218-5