Les Séparables

Romain and Sabah, two nine-year-olds who live in the same housing development, have created imaginary worlds for themselves to escape reality. Through their dreams, they escape their parents’ fears and suspicions—fears and suspicions directed at one another and at each other’s differences. They love each other, period, and would like to stay together forever. But their parents have decided otherwise.

“Often, at the heart of the stories I write, I imagine perplexed children. Children for whom the reality they are forced to live in raises questions. Children who doubt, who worry. Children who, in the harsh light of things as they are, set their thirst for something else against it: a desire to enrich their presence in the world with poetic, dreamlike, abstract, and enigmatic elements.” F.M.