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Introducing Émile Garreau, French, retired and widower. He now and then goes for a drink and a chat at the village café or watches a TV game show, but most of his days he spends fishing with his friend Edmond. Lately, that’s about all his life has to offer. Peaceful and predictable. But all that changes after Edmond’s unexpected death.
French comic book writer Pascal Rabaté tells the epic story of an old man on his quest, in search of a cure for his loneliness and rediscovering the pleasures of life.
When you’ve traveled through the countryside of Central France before, taking the slow and winding routes départementales instead of the faster autoroutes (motorways, toll roads), you’ll certainly recognize some of its typical ingredients in this book: green pastures, somnolent villages, big supermarkets, sand coloured houses with fenced gardens…
Our hero has to fight against the demons of conformism, embarrasment and taboo (should old people still have sex?), and the fear of staying behind, alone.
Great story! Some of the situations Émile ends up in are really hilarious. This comic book should be obligatory reading in any home for the elderly! Rabaté’s Les petits ruisseaux (Futuropolis, 2006) is translated in Dutch as Een tweede jeugd (Oog & Blik, 2007). I don’t know if there’s an English version available, but if not, they’d better get it published fast.
