Noires blessures
Laurent Kala, un Français expatrié, est employé par une ONG qui milite pour la protection des animaux en voie de disparition. Benjamin d'une famille nombreuse, Mamad White a connu une enfance difficile. Il a pensé un temps pouvoir échapper à sa condition précaire, mais le destin en a fait le boy de Laurent.
Un fait apparemment banal entraîne le Blanc au bord de la folie. Le voilà, quelque part dans la jungle africaine, sur le point de tuer son domestique noir. Comment les deux hommes en sont-ils arrivés là?
À la fois grave et plein d'humour, le roman de Louis-Philippe Dalembert dresse des portraits émouvants d'hommes et de femmes accrochés à leur humanité, au milieu des relents de racisme et de colonialisme.
- Littérature générale
- Paru le 13/01/2011
- Genres : Littérature française - Littérature étrangère
- 224 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715231603
- ISBN : 9782715231603
Foreign Rights
Black Wounds
Rights Sold :
Germany - Droits réservés
Presentation
The novel begins in the African Jungle with a violent struggle between two men: Laurent Kala, the white man, is about to kill Mamad, his black servant. Two successive flashbacks show us the fight Mamad has been leading since childhood in order to build a better future for himself. Extraordinary efforts that have turned out to be in vain. Mamad has stayed in Africa and become a servant. Laurent Kala grew up in Paris, his father teaching him early on an awareness of the Black cause. Laurent too, aged just ten, has to face a harsh reality when he loses his father, killed in a protest against the assassination of Martin Luther King. In retrospect, we come to understand how these two mens destinies have been sealed and the reasons that have made the son of a French humanist become such a violent man. Not without humor, this novel paints some moving portraits of men and women caught up by their family history and their origins.
Louis-Philippe Dalembert was born in Port-au-Prince in 1962. A novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist, this one time boarder at the Villa Medicis is the author of Le crayon du bon Dieu n’a pas de gomme, L’Autre Face de la mer (Prix RFO) and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis.
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