Eden

Eden – Tulip, a plump and debonair monk, lives in a community led by Prior Cosmos. Life is peaceful at the monastery, punctuated simply by the passing hours – the sermon, the soup, the siesta. However, Tulip and his quietude are one day disturbed by the challenge of a tree, under which our bear had dozed: “- Instead of dreaming in vain, will you have the courage to go and find the real Garden of Eden?”

Does this Paradise, of which Cosmos speaks in his sermon, really exist? What prodigious flowers are found in this garden, what unknown birds gather them?

Tulip surprises her world and sets off on her journey, which will bring her as many astonishing encounters as amazing discoveries – and in the end, whether or not Eden is at the end of her path is perhaps not the most important thing…

In this surprising story, of great finesse and beauty, Sophie Guerrive gives us the gift of making her bear Tulip live a real adventure. We find with pleasure all the characters of her well known universe (Tulip, 4 volumes published), but nothing prevents a new reader to dive into this album. Displacing her voices in a medieval universe of which she also masters the codes, she adds to Tulip’s poetic-philosophical digressions a spiritual dimension, with modesty, sensitivity and intelligence: Sophie Guerrive is at the top of her art.