Amulet Girl (novel)

The leitmotif of the novel “Amulet Girl” is the phrase: “Life is beautiful, and we must accept it as it is, take care of it and not waste it over trifles.” The novel “Amulet Girl” is about a lonely man who has crossed the middle-aged line and who has been given a chance to change his life by fate.

Mike Wilson, a slowly drunk pianist, plays in a nondescript hotel bar in Los Angeles. Twenty years ago, he was prophesied as a virtuoso pianist, but everything collapsed in the life of a young man when his mother died. From this moment, something broke in him and the life of a talented musician, full of creative plans, eluded Mike, and he put up with it, dropping lower and lower. Now he is a disappointed forty-year-old bachelor who divides his life between a bottle of whiskey, a dog Prince and an old bicycle.

But miraculously, his disgusted life changes dramatically. He meets the woman of his dreams Lucy, between them like a flash, love arises. Lucy became Mike’s “muse”, his unspent potential as a pianist, interested in the music producer of classical music. Mike faces a difficult choice: to overcome his addictions and fears of the past or fall to the bottom. A choice for which perhaps there is no longer neither strength nor desire. But love, friendship and an unshakable faith in life, finally helps to do what was predetermined by fate.

According to the author of the work: “I have been carrying this story about the amulet girl for more than twenty years and therefore there are similarities with my character, but this is not an autobiographical novel. The book takes place in Los Angeles because I lived there when I started writing. This place is based on hypocrisy, therefore, in this city it is much more difficult to survive such a change of events when he was a successful person and then became a loser.

I thought a lot about this guy who recognized fame in his youth, and then sank to the bottom of life. I, like him, had an easy childhood, I also lacked love. Just like him, I drank a lot. He put up with the fact that he is an ordinary loser and nothing can be changed. But everyone in this life has the right to a second chance, the opportunity to start all over again.

I made this book simple, sincere, and like a fairy tale. She is a hymn of love because I believe in love. It is love that returns to my character dignity, self-respect ... And I was lucky that I met true love, which gave me my second chance. True, it took a lot of time, but I finally found her, my amulet girl. " ^[1]

In the novel “The Amulet Girl”, written by the author in the first person, Christoph Lambert, like a real romantic, speaks of love, music and life with humor, tenderness and delicacy, a modern, easy language. The reader’s attention is riveted by interesting dialogues and an unexpected turn of the plot, worthy of adaptation. According to the author of the work: “For 20 years of working on this story, I did not know what I wanted to do: a script or a novel. When I met with Muriel Beyer, director of the Plon publishing house, she said: give me 15 pages of the novel. After of how she read them, they decided to write a book .. By the way, after the success of the novel “The Amulet Girl”, Lambert plans to write a second novel.

After four years from the release of the first novel, on April 9, 2015, Christoph Lambert published his second novel, entitled “The Judge”. His release is scheduled for June 11, 2015 at the same publishing house. The novel is written in the genre of detective fiction and tells the story of Christopher Keller, convicted of revenge for the murderers of his family. After his release from prison, where he studied law, Keller begins to investigate cases that the police refused ... ^[2]

In May 2011, Christophe Lambert attended the “National Book and Wine Day”, which is held every year in Saumur and where he received the 2011 Claude Chabrol Literary Prize for his novel “The Amulet Girl,” as the best adaptation of the book for filming on big screen. ^[3]

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• Video Interview 2011 Christoph Lambert presents his novel Amulet Girl (Fr.)