Ludo is a young boy when he meets Lila, but he knows that she is the love of his life. They do not come from the same background. She is the daughter of a count, he is an orphan, raised by his uncle, known for his incredible kites. Ludo will do anything to be worthy of Lila. Then World War II breaks out and they are separated. But Ludo has a gift, a memory so enormous that he cannot forget anything. So he invents his life with Lila and makes her live with him day after day while helping the Resistance in his region\u2026 And the book ends well. A beautiful story about love, hope, resistance, resilience and forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“J\u2019\u00e9tais jaloux de ses solitudes, des sentiers qu\u2019elle parcourait sans moi, des livres qu\u2019elle emportait avec elle et qu\u2019elle lisait comme si je n\u2019existais pas. Je savais \u00e0 pr\u00e9sent me moquer de mes exc\u00e8s d\u2019exigence et de mes terreurs tyranniques ; je commen\u00e7ais \u00e0 comprendre qu\u2019il faut savoir laisser, m\u00eame \u00e0 sa raison de vivre, le droit de vous quitter de temps en temps, et m\u00eame celui de vous tromper un peu avec la solitude, avec l\u2019horizon et avec ces hautes plantes dont je ne connaissais pas le nom et qui perdaient leurs t\u00eates blanches au moindre coup de vent. Lorsqu\u2019elle me quittait ainsi pour \u00ab se chercher \u00bb \u2013 il lui arrivait de passer en une seule journ\u00e9e de l\u2019Ecole du Louvre \u00e0 Paris aux \u00e9tudes de biologie en Angleterre \u2013, je me sentais chass\u00e9 de sa vie pour cause d\u2019insignifiance. Je commen\u00e7ais cependant \u00e0 m\u2019\u00e9veiller \u00e0 l\u2019id\u00e9e qu\u2019il ne suffisait pas d\u2019aimer mais qu\u2019il fallait aussi apprendre \u00e0 aimer et me rappelai le conseil de mon oncle Ambroise, celui de \u00ab tenir fermement le bout de la ficelle pour emp\u00eacher son cerf-volant d\u2019aller se perdre dans la poursuite du bleu \u00bb. Je r\u00eavais trop haut et trop loin. Il me fallait accepter l\u2019id\u00e9e que j\u2019\u00e9tais seulement ma propre vie et pas celle de Lila. Jamais encore la notion de libert\u00e9 ne m\u2019\u00e9tait apparue aussi s\u00e9v\u00e8re, aussi exigeante et difficile.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Original title : Les cerf-volants Read partly in French, partly in English<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ludo is a young boy when he meets Lila, but he knows that she is the love of his life. They do not come from the same background. She is the daughter of a count, he is an orphan, raised by his uncle, known for his incredible kites. Ludo will do anything to be worthy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[142,155,125],"tags":[19,13,173],"class_list":["post-9963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-2022","category-challenge-solidaire-2022","category-shakespeare-and-company-year-of-reading-2021","tag-love","tag-resilience","tag-war"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/viktorija-lankauskaite-5Wos7XmGOiI-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9963"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14878,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions\/14878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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