Author's biography
A graduate from Sup de Co, Michel Pain-Edeline first envisaged a career as a dynamic young executive when a multiple sclerosis paralysed him, forcing him to become a teacher instead. Accustomed from childhood to an irresistible need for freedom, writing helped to alleviate the physical and moral suffering linked to his disability. The characters he comes up with – astonishing in their endurance and simplicity – invite the reader to live fully, without anyspatial or temporal limits. His characters cross centuries, on foot, on horseback, in the air, sink into the forests, the deserts... Michel thinks, he writes. He never stops. The paralysis pushes him to always be more observant. During entire afternoons and nighs, he travels in the company of these human beings he has shaped with words and paper. Then came the computer, the dictaphone… The disease evolves but his writing continues with a rare beauty which has been rewarded on numerous occasions at the Salon du livre de la Rochelle, Lectura, Prix Marie de Buttlar, competition for the small edition of Marseilles…

The cover design was drawn by Tamara Abramyan, 19..