Passers-by
by Michelle Gazier
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Montpellier. Madeleine, Evelyne, Lilas, Leonor and Joseph are nurses in a doctor’s office where their rounds are full. Among their patients are a majority of elderly people who are often isolated. They give them care, of course, but above all they bring them a little human warmth. They surround them, taking turns with them with professionalism and kindness, creating a perimeter of medical and emotional protection. But if medical care is provided according to strict protocols, there are no rules regarding the individual relationship with patients, empathy, distance or proximity to be established. It is all a matter of perception and sensitivity. Nurses are not machines: they have their own questions, their own family problems. Sometimes, it wouldn’t take much for them to get caught up, overwhelmed by the suffering or loneliness of their patients... In this moving novel of humanity, Michèle Gazier pays a delicate tribute to these modern-day passers-by at the forefront of solidarity and altruism.
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Author Biography
Michèle Gazier has long been a literary columnist for Télérama. She is a translator, writer and author of some thirty books - novels, short stories, literary and art essays, short anthologies. Her latest novel, Silencieuse, was published by Le Seuil in 2017.
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- Publisher Mercure de France
- Publication Date September 2020
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9782715254473
- FormatHardback
- Pages200
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleLes Passantes
- Copyright Year2020
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