The tiny island of Le Devin is a place where the salt of the sea is always on one's lips, the breeze never stops blowing, and nothing has changed for a hundred years. It is to this world that Madeleine returns after spending a decade in Paris. She has been haunted by this place -- this island lost in time -- but now she finds many things have changed. Madeleine's quiet father, a former boat builder, has almost completely withdrawn into an interior world. His decline seems reflected in the town itself, for when its only ...
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The tiny island of Le Devin is a place where the salt of the sea is always on one's lips, the breeze never stops blowing, and nothing has changed for a hundred years. It is to this world that Madeleine returns after spending a decade in Paris. She has been haunted by this place -- this island lost in time -- but now she finds many things have changed. Madeleine's quiet father, a former boat builder, has almost completely withdrawn into an interior world. His decline seems reflected in the town itself, for when its only beach washed away, what little tourism existed drifted elsewhere. Although Madeleine's own life has been adrift for a very long time, she soon finds herself uniting with the village's other lost souls in a struggle for survival and salvation.
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