Toutes les îles et l'océan
Années 1960. Adèle a vingt-cinq ans quand elle part en Afrique à la recherche de Sainto. Avec cet inconnu, elle a passé à Paris trois jours et trois nuits passionnés dans une chambre d'hôtel, avant qu'il disparaisse. Enceinte, elle entend bien retrouver le père de son enfant à naître. Quelques indices la conduiront vers le Congo, pays à feu et à sang. Sa quête commence par la lente remontée du fleuve Congo...
De Paris à Kisangani, de Bruxelles à Londres, d'un continent à l'autre, Jean-Pierre Orban nous emporte avec lui dans une odyssée poignante, où il est question de recherche des origines, de transmission et d'une amitié singulière.
- Bleue
- Paru le 01/03/2018
- Genre : Littérature française
- 304 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715247291
- ISBN : 9782715247291
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All the Islands and the Ocean
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Presentation
In the 60’s, Adèle, a young French woman aged 25, is expecting a child following three nights of passion with Sainto, a man she met in Paris a few weeks earlier. Sainto disappears without leaving an address. She collects a few clues which lead her to Congo, a country engaged in a bloody and dangerous post-independence insurrection.
In Africa, Adèle doesn’t go unnoticed. The white population has fled the country massively. No one knows why this young woman is determined to travel up the Congo river towards the Equator. Her quest begins, carried by the slow pace of the river… When Adele finds Sainto, it is too late: he has just been mysteriously murdered. Unfortunately her future child will never know his father…
Several years later, Raphaël, now an adult, is at his mother’s graveside in Brussels. Adèle had not had the time to entrust him with the keys to their past. The quest goes on, passed on from mother to son…
Jean-Pierre Orban lives between Paris and Brussels. He studied philosophy, theatre and journalism. He writes plays and has published youth literature. Amongst his works, he has published two collections of short stories and a first novel, Vera (Mercure de France, 2014), which was awarded the First Novel Prize 2014, the European Book Prize 2015 and has been translated into English (Francis Boutle, UK), Italian (Gremese) and Vietnamese (Sao Bac).
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