
Or perhaps not ...
One might believe in an atmosphere quite Tim Burton: Jack was born on the coldest day of the world, at the top of the hill of Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, 1874. So cold that day, his heart is frozen and it owes its survival to Madeleine, a midwife in a little doctor, little witch, a bit fragile but so strong that it grafting a clock on the heart for it to work. While other kids like him out of the belly of prostitutes, often find an adoptive family, Little Jack sees her difference exclude inexorably. He grew up under the protection of Madeleine, who warns against the outside world, he whose heart is so fragile ... Yet besides this encounter with Miss Acacia, the small singer who refuses to wear his glasses for the sake of vanity and bumps at all, this little singer that captivates from the moment he crosses. This little singer from Andalusia who introduced him to all that love can cause such disruption within the heart.
In his way with his words, his world of dreams, images, sparks, and dark fantasy, Mathias Malzieu addresses the theme of difference and rejection, but also those of passion and its destructive misunderstandings, pain felt by a heart triturated by a love too strong for him. It emerges from the novel, its engaging characters, an atmosphere that disconnects us from reality and never forget to remind us. While he may be accused of having a (very little) abused the good kind of strings, The Mechanics of the Heart is a tale for big kids that we are always sensitive to this kind of fiction allegorical abundant that somehow transcends emotions.
U No touching book that we stick to the fertilizer images in my head. Maybe not the book of the year but a little bit of heart.