The cold path of the fishes

The cold path of the fishes by Pierre Szalowski, Barcelona, Random House Mondadori, 2009 (2007, Le froid modifie la Trajectoire des poissons)

Is tender, gentle and true. These are some of the adjectives before a pleasure reading that reminds me, of course, the Booker Prize a few years ago, Life of Pi (2002) by Yann Martel. A story comfortable, attractive to the reader who decides to follow the intrinsic goal of the novel as genre: the enjoyment. With Szalowski history, educational software designer and producer of video games, learn a little more from the mind of a child before the adverse circumstances of his life. A bit like Gemma Lienas excellent novel, The End Game (2003), where as a reader you feel trapped within the mind of a restless young man who sees his world grow with resignation.
This story about the cold in Quebec is a pretext to understand how human beings, in constant crisis, they see the love grow after the need for solidarity, to work together in extreme situations like a storm of freezing rain in that territory. Attractive characters, his friend Alex and his father Alexis, parents in crisis, Martin and Anne, the stripper and Russian student Julie Boris, the pair of gay neighbors, and Michel Simon, cats, dogs, and the protagonist that eventually revealed his name does not end: “I have never said my name. At the last page no longer has any importance.” (P. 210). A good way to finish a novel that certainly weighs-and over-the U.S. will leave all the stories locked. Is a good book to give away.