By Jean-Christophe Grange
As a baby Diane Thiberge was once the sufferer of an attack. Now elderly 30, an ethnologist focusing on the examine of predatory animals, and a lady adept within the martial arts, she believes she has finally chanced on a that means and objective to her existence whilst she comes to a decision to undertake a five-year-old Thai boy, Liu-San, whom she christens Lucien. A nightmare ensues, notwithstanding. On her go back to France, Lucien has an coincidence and is said to be brain-dead. a sequence of murders make Diane observe that her son is not any usual baby, however the prey of sinister and paranormal forces.
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He snapped his fingers. "From the surface of the skin? And only Chinese practitioners have discovered this underground network? " There was a knock at the door. Madame Ferrer came in. "Doctor, we've found the man who broke into the unit," she declared, a little out of breath. Diane's face lit up. She turned right round, one elbow on the back of her chair. "Have you told him about Lucien? " Madame Ferrer ignored her questions and looked back at the doctor. " The surgeon picked up his pencil again and twiddled it around his index finger, like a majorette's baton.
Beware of this wish to know more, of digging into Lu-Sian's past. He's now your son. And you're his origin. " "It won't get you anywhere. It's an obsession among adoptive parents. There always comes a time when you want to know, when you start searching and rummaging around. It's as though you want to occupy that mysterious time before you existed for your child. But these children do have a past, and you can't do anything to change that. " There was nothing Diane could add to that. Her throat was too dry.
Diane had realised that it would be impossible to identify a dialect without the right accent and pronunciation. That was when she remembered her son's cassette. Diane pressed "play". Suddenly, Lucien's nasal tones filled the russet-shaded room. His jolting, slightly guttural syllables rose up like childish bubbles in the silent evening. Isabelle Condroyer was visibly staggered. Diane had won. But she did not savour her victory. Her child's voice surprised her, too. She had not listened to his cassette since the accident.