Corniche Kennedy by Maylis de Kerangal | Folio

"The little idiots of the corniche. The gang. We do not know how to name them autrement. Their bodies are incisive, their age dilated between thirteen and seventeen, and it is one and the same age, that of conquest: one turns one's cheek away from the mother's kiss, one spits in the soup, one deserts la maison."

Over the course of a summer, a few idle teenagers defy the laws of gravitation by diving along the Corniche Kennedy. Behind his binoculars, a commissioner, in charge of monitoring this area of the coast, observes them. Between zero tolerance and a taste for the forbidden, things will get worse...

Harsh and sensual, the magic of this novel hangs by a thread, the thread of a writing without dead time, crystallizing all the vertigo.