{"id":12897,"date":"2016-02-22T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T08:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/?p=12897"},"modified":"2016-02-21T19:09:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T18:09:51","slug":"the-book-on-the-nightstand-the-boy-with-the-cuckoo-clock-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/the-book-on-the-nightstand-the-boy-with-the-cuckoo-clock-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BOOK ON THE NIGHTSTAND: THE BOY WITH THE CUCKOO-CLOCK HEART"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are in 1874, the most chilly night of the year hanging over Edinburgh.<\/span>
\n<\/span>In the house on the hill Madeleine the \u201cwitch\u201d gives birth to little Jack: his heart is frozen and the only way to save him is to replace the organ with a cuckoo clock, its mechanism will allow him to beat. He\u2019ll find soon that this trick will force him to a life away from the feelings, including love, but Jack can’t fear what is unknown.<\/span>
\n<\/span>However one day the voice of a young singer – Miss Acacia – enters strongly in his strange heart arousing the fear and the concern of Madeleine, her mother-midwife, who will warn him with these words:<\/span>
\n<\/span>One, don\u2019t touch the hands.<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span><\/i>Two, dominates the anger.<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span><\/i>Three, never fall in love, never ever.<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span><\/i>Otherwise, in the clock of your heart, the big hand
\n<\/span><\/i>of the hours will pierce your skin forever,
\n<\/span><\/i>your bones will shatter,
\n<\/span><\/i>and the mechanics of the heart will go again into pieces.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The boy with the cuckoo-clock heart isn\u2019t a children’s novel but Mathias Malzieu, with his charming style enchant as if it were so. He speaks to adults for whom it\u2019s still possible imagine a cuckoo clock as heart, to adults still able to be carried away by the love between the little more than teenagers protagonists – also if they think as adults.<\/span><\/p>\n

The key word of the story of little Jack is certainly <\/span>trust<\/b>:<\/span>
\n<\/span>given<\/b> to Madeleine, who loves him like a mother can do;<\/span>
\n<\/span>boundless <\/b>in the<\/span> love for the little singer, for her he overcomes his fragile condition traveling around Europe in order to find her again;<\/span>
\n<\/span>donated<\/b> to the life he want for himselfs, tempting the fate to which others think he\u2019s destined.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Time of the reading:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>a couple of nights<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Photography: Sara Cartelli.<\/em>
\n\u00a9 The Eat Culture.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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