Cent vies et des poussières
Pour Gina Bovoir, attendre un bébé est un moment d’exception. Elle a déjà sept enfants de pères différents. Enceinte de son huitième petit, elle s’en réjouit en secret avant d’annoncer la nouvelle à son entourage. C’est sa façon de fuir le réel et les soucis du quotidien. Car Gina vit dans un quartier difficile, la Ravine claire, un ghetto désolé, violent, abandonné des pouvoirs publics. Après chaque accouchement, Gina promet de ne plus tomber enceinte, mais «rechute» systématiquement. Sharon voit sa mère s’éloigner un peu plus de ses grands enfants. La filette supportera-t-elle un nouveau petit frère?
À travers cette chronique douce-amère et les destins singuliers de ses personnages, Gisèle Pineau brosse aussi le portrait de la Guadeloupe d’aujourd’hui, tiraillée entre ses douleurs anciennes et ses fléaux modernes.
- Littérature générale
- Paru le 07/05/2012
- Genre : Littérature française
- 304 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715229518
- ISBN : 9782715229518
Foreign Rights
One Hundred Lives and Dust
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Italy - Gremese
Presentation
For Gina, expecting a baby is like a fleeting instant of ecstasy. That is why she already has seven children, from several different fathers, and why in these early days of 2009, she is expecting her eighth... For her, being pregnant is a way of escaping the real world and its many worries. Gina Bovoir lives in a sordid and disreputable district, the Ravine Claire, a ghetto with rundown streets, abandoned by public authorities, teeming with people, all poor and destitute : the dregs of Guadeloupe with its procession of violence, drugs, prostitution and crime... Gina also has to look after her old sick mother Izora.
After each birth, Gina promises to not become pregnant again ; but she "relapses" systematically. To the despair of her daughter Sharon who, unlike her brothers and sisters, has a heightened awareness of the situation : she knows that each new birth takes her mother further from her children. Will Sharon bear a new birth, a new little brother? Would leaving Ravine Claire be an answer?
Gisèle Pineau is the author of La Grande Drive des esprits (Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle 1993), Chair Piment (2002), Fleur de Barbarie (2005) and Morne Câpresse (2008), all published in pocket edition.
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