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On the 25th of June the young and promising poet Peter Segers dies in an accident on Mont Ventoux. 30 years later 5 of his best friends return to the Provence. André just retired from his career as coke dealer for the rich. Joost is a physicist and won the Spinoza prize but is no being accused of being a fraud. David owns a travelling agency for adventurous trips. Bart is a crime journalist and is working on a book about Spinoza and biking. Laura who vanished after Peter's death turns out to be a stage director in Arezzo.
What happened 30 years ago? Can you undo choices you made? What does time do and what does time even mean? Can love break up real friendship? Can you be blamed for fortune? What is left when you are about to turn fifty? Why do they return?
Is it a good idea to clean your bicycle chain with petroleum, what do you need to think of when you go up trough Forest. Does string theory make you happy? What was between Dominique Sanda the actrice and Friedrich Nietzsche and what are the looks of Caffè San Marco in Triëst? Does anything in life ever ends in something positive?
During the Tour de France this book slowly came on my radar and suddenly it was everywhere. Even in the train people where reading it. Which is probably safer compared to reading on a bike. Ventoux is a mountain in the south of France which is a regular part of the Tour de France hence the attention. I have heard a lot of good things about this book. It should be an easy but beautiful read according to people. Still I am not that much interested. Maybe one day when I am bored I will suddenly think of it and pick it up.
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