Strike Your Heart by Amélie Nothomb

Author:Amélie Nothomb
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781609454869
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2018-07-11T16:00:00+00:00

Monsieur and Madame Second welcomed Diane with affection: she was their daughter’s sister, and thus their child. Diane had her own room, next to Élisabeth’s.

A new life began. At least three nights a week the girls went to the Opéra to attend concerts.

“Why did you never go before you met me?” asked Diane.

“It felt like an obligation. Now that I’ve met you it’s a pleasure.”

The lycée was rife with gossip. Their classmates called them dykes. The interested parties shrugged it off. Diane lost some of her prestige, Élisabeth found hers greatly enhanced.

Monsieur Second persuaded his new daughter to take up the violin. While he was an excellent artist, he proved a poor professor; as for Diane, she displayed more zeal than talent. The rare occasions when she managed to make her instrument produce a sound that contained some emotion, she burst into convulsive sobs. The experiment came to a sudden end.

Now and then she could see the beauty of her present life, the harmony of her time with the Second family, and she could appreciate the distance she had taken from her former travails, only to relapse all the more grievously when she ran into her brother at the lycée, or when her father, who clearly failed to grasp the situation, came to wait for her after class and gave her a long hug that seemed filled with pain.

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