Friends
A TIGHT-KNIT CLIQUE
BACK THEN, IN PROVENCE: four young people full of ideals and diverse desires throw themselves into life. Joël wants to become an artist, Gina a doctor in the Third World. Pio wants to change the world as a teacher, and Bastian as a politician. Today, decades later in a correctional facility, they take stock. While they thought they were building their lives, fate had other, tumultuous plans: small events led to big changes. Why did the embrace by the Dalai Lama have a completely different effect than the
Chinese characters by Ai Weiwei? However, the presence of the fi fth member of the group, the one who is no longer there, is felt particularly strongly: Vincenz. His loss still hurts today and has left feelings of guilt. How could it ever come to this?
Andreas Martin Sommer, born in 1956, developed media services for universities and founded private schools in Switzerland and England after his psychology and business studies. He has now been writing plays as well as screenplays and fi lm and television treatments for fi fteen years. Friends is his fourth novel. The writer lives in Switzerland and France.