Sarah Rigaud, Editorial Director
"This novel's great strength lies in its poetic, powerful, finely wrought prose, grounded in the harshness of its rural setting."

One ordinary morning, the sun fails to rise. Animals vanish. Cars and phones stop working. And an entire village—maybe the entire world—is plunged into darkness.
Young Anna, in the flush of first love; Ethel and her long-meaningless life; Josselin, monstrous and hostile after his accident; and imaginative little Gautier seek a way to survive the dark. Suspected of having cursed the skies, a strange hermit woman soon draws the village's ire.
Colossal, dazzling, the moon alone lights these helpless, groping souls, guiding and gradually transforming them, as past choices and buried desires are interrogated. What if this darkness isn't the end of the world but the start of a new one?