J'ai cru qu'ils enlevaient toute trace de toi | Yoan Smadja

J'ai cru qu'ils enlevaient toute trace de toi

EAN : 9782714481009

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 288

Size : 134 x 190 mm

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I thought they'd erased every trace of you

Yoan Smadja

Collection : Belfond Pointillés

Release date : 04/04/2019

Paris, 2017. Sacha Alona, a former war reporter who is now a restaurant critic, receives a small batch of letters engraved with a flower. The scent of lilies and vanilla comes back to her, as well as a series of events that occurred twenty years previously.

In 1994, Sacha is sent... Paris, 2017. Sacha Alona, a former war reporter who is now a restaurant critic, receives a small batch of letters engraved with a flower. The scent of lilies and vanilla comes back to her, as well as a series of events that occurred twenty years previously.

In 1994, Sacha is sent by her editor to cover the first democratic elections in South Africa. But very rapidly a series of events turns his attention to Rwanda where tensions are mounting, although the international community has yet appreciated the imminence of the genocide. Determined to secure an interview with the FPR leader Paul Kagamé, Sacha gets to know his personal doctor, Daniel. For several days, Daniel has been madly and desperately trying to locate his family - his wife Rose and his little boy Joseph - who disappeared at the outbreak of the conflict as the terrible massacres began.

Do the three stand any chance of being reunited as Rwanda disintegrates and the genocide reaches its zenith? Who wrote these letters that Sacha receives twenty years later? as the 25th anniversary of the events in Rwanda approaches? In this highly moving and very well-researched novel, Yoan Smadja revisits the genocide of Tutsis and moderate Hutus through the incredible story of a young couple and their child.

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EAN : 9782714481009

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 288

Size : 134 x 190 mm

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