About the book: 2014 / Like Proust, Philippe Claudel tries to stop time, preserving in memory those moments that you don’t want to part with, which are like flashes of bright light on monochromatic canvas of everyday life. A person is alive as long as he feels, and smell is the most powerful catalyst for feelings and memories. The smell of tomatoes that his mother cooked in a large saucepan, the aroma of acacia that was fried in dough, the incomparable spirit when my grandmother fried garlic ...The one who knows how to feel is a happy person: he knows what life smells like, and the passage of time is subject to him.