A big warm smile appears on the computer screen: Shmuel T. Meyer speaks to us from the surroundings of Binyamina, in Israel. A generous sun pours in from a window on its left. From his second dose of vaccine received in Paris, where he lives, the writer flew to visit his grandchildren, whom he had not seen since the start of the pandemic. And so it was with his family and not far from the sea that he learned that he was the 2021 laureate of the Prix Goncourt of the short story for his trilogy. And the war is over …, three collections gathered in a box by the Geneva editions Metropolis.
In all, 40 short stories, packed like a strong liquor, from which escapes a farandole of characters, caught in the eddies of the Thirty Glorious Years, from New York to Paris, from Saint-Luc in Valais to the kibbutz around Caesarea. Fates intersect and respond to each other, from one piece of news to another, like wars whose effects, on bodies and hearts, are felt long after the end of the fighting.
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