The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly meets Reasons To Stay Alive in this beautiful bestselling memoir that has taken the French literary world by storm.
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Mathias Malzieu is a dynamic artist who seamlessly blends his musical and literary careers. As the frontman and lyricist for the French band Dionysos, he infuses his writing with the same vibrant energy and poetic sensibility. Malzieu often conceives his novels as cinematic narratives, composing original soundtracks for them that enhance the storytelling. This unique fusion of words and music creates a rich, multi-sensory experience for the reader.






- 2017
- 2009
The Boy with the Cuckoo-clock Heart
- 167 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Edinburgh, 1874: Little Jack is born with a frozen heart and immediately undergoes a life-saving operation -- the implantation of a cuckoo-clock in his chest. From then on his days all begin with a wind-up, in this dark, tender fairy tale spiced with devilish humour.