Its smell after the rain - Cedric Sapin Defour

It is a story of love, life and death. On what other tripod has literature danced for centuries? In His Smell After the Rain, this tripod, moreover, is unstable because it unites two beings who do not belong to the same species: a man and his dog. A Bernese mountain dog who, as he grows up, takes, in every sense of the word, an ever more essential place in the narrator's life.

Ubac, that's his name (the search for the right name is an adventure in itself), is not the central character of this book, Cédric Sapin-Defour, his master, even less. Besides, he doesn't want to be considered a master. The hero is their bond. This unique, obvious bond and, for those who have explored it, surpassing so many other relationships. This illegible and useless bond for those to whom the company of dogs means nothing. Over the course of thirteen years of living together, the reader is invited to sway between the conviction of some and the incomprehension or even repulsion of others; but there's no need to be a dog man to be taken by this story because if such an exchange is inimitable, it is just as universal. On some pages, Ubac stinks of a dog, on the following ones, we forget that he is one and we observe these two beings simply loving each other.