Marie Darrieussecq

Marie is a fighter who sells her skills to the highest bidder. With her friend and blood brother, William, she fights the 'Dragons' – strange creatures that hover on the borderline of reality.
Along with her sister Armance, Marie is in search of Georges d'Aiscelin, one of the murderers responsible for the massacre of their family, fifteen years earlier. Having lost his trail and needing money, they accept an apparently simple mission; to escort a monk and a treasure of the French church safely out of the kingdom of Milan…
But soon, on the road through the Alps, the pursuit becomes a deadly struggle. Furthermore, the shade of the cruel Georges d'Aiscelin, and Lou, the young brother of Marie, overshadows their path.

Under the gaze of Edouard III, sovereign of England, a tournament has been organized, to fight monsters made of pasteboard, and beautiful Marie will be the guest of honor… But the young woman is still looking for her brother Amaury, sold as slave when he was eight years old. And to overcome the French armies, the king of England schemes to call upon dark forces - the real monsters, made of horror and hatred, which Marie has been fighting for a long time…
Knights are competing against each other to impress noble ladies, swords are colliding, worlds are tearing apart, and atrocities are showing up… And Marie has to choose her side.

Marie is 12 years old when she finds her village has been destroyed, her parents murdered, and her brothers and sisters reduced to slavery. She swears that, one day, she will take revenge for this…
Fifteen years later, Marie has become a fighter who sells her skills to the highest bidder. With her friend and blood-brother, William, she fights the 'Dragons' – strange creatures that hover on the borderline of reality. Marie is the only person who can see them and confront them. That's when she finds herself on the trail of one of her family's murderers. Will she be able to avenge her family? And are her strange abilities linked to the slaughter that occurred when she was a child?

Ange-Marie a vécu l’horreur des tranchées de 14-18. Bien qu’il en soit ressorti vivant, il est constamment hanté par des souvenirs sonores et visuels, notamment la vue de ses compagnons morts. Depuis, il ne cesse de fuir la vie et refuse de se reconstruire moralement.

El padre de Marie-Noëlle opina que come mucho, pero ella es una niña feliz. Sin embargo, «hay que ver cómo come Marie-Noëlle». Preadolescente, la comida se ha convertido en una obsesión, y a las observaciones no demasiado malintencionadas del padre comienzan a sumarse las de su entorno. Una tarde, frente al espejo, Marie-Noëlle tiene una revelación: es fea, está gorda. La espiral la atrapa y no la suelta hasta que, joven adulta, por fin decide buscar ayuda.

Una de las obras más hermosas de Usamaru Furuya (El club del suicidio, Happiness) en una edición espectacular. Este cuento de fantasía de escala épica nos introduce en un mundo fascinante lleno de maravillas. En La música de Marie (título provisional), los hombres adoran a una diosa mecánica que de vez en cuando aparece en el cielo.