Un domingo en Ville-d'Avray

A woman visits her older sister in Ville-d'Avray, a quiet residential area on the outskirts of Paris. Her lives have followed very different paths and they have lost the complicity of their childhood, but that Sunday evening, in the garden, the confidences will reappear unexpectedly; her sister will tell him about the brief and disturbing relationship she had with a stranger, still present in her thoughts despite the years that have passed. This intense and delicate novel tells us about the need for adventure within a monotonous existence and explores the unspeakable longings and secrets that make us unknown to others and even to ourselves: "Who really knows us? We count so few things, and we lie about almost everything. Who knows the truth?". With the veiled memories and silences of that conversation full of chiaroscuro, in an enveloping and disturbing atmosphere, Barbéris subtly explores the imperceptible uneasiness of a life without emotions in this little literary gem that has been a finalist for the prestigious Goncourt and Femina awards.