Book - en souvenir de demain

Book - En souvenir de demain
The tile means 'in memory of tomorrow'.

Author: Véronique Bréger 

Score: 8/10

Year : 2006 

KTM editions, ISBN 2913066275

197 pages 
Language : French. Not translated (yet) 

The year is 2488; many cataclysms reduced the human population by 80% and changed the face of the world.
During an auction, an American historian, Emma, discovers a manuscript dating from 2004. It tells a love story between a French woman - France Moreau - and a Greek artist - Evridiki Thasseli. Captivated, Emma takes off for Greece, and without her knowledge, ends up in the middle of art trafficking. She visits several islands, meeting different contacts for her research and falls in love with a charming archaeologist…

This is the first lesbian novel I’ve read, and in spite of one brief scene of food, I absolutely enjoyed my reading. A few erotic and poetic love scenes spice this romantic novel, full of mystery and mythology.
Suspense was good and had to wait for the end to really know what was going on, although I had developed a few theories early on and I still believe in them…
It seems it wasn’t translated to English, so only the French readers will have access to it, for now…