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Robert Laffont
EAN : 9782221195666
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 216
Size : 135 x 215 mm
For a Long Time, I Was Afraid of the Night

Release date : 18/08/2016
The story, recorded by a Lebanese novelist haunted by her own past, of a young Rwandan boy who had to flee his country to escape the massacres.
Everything starts one day when Suzanne, who runs writing workshops for college students, asks each one to bring a family item to class. One of them vows that he doesn’t have a thing: Arsène, an African teen who was taken in by two professors. He has nothing left from his... Everything starts one day when Suzanne, who runs writing workshops for college students, asks each one to bring a family item to class. One of them vows that he doesn’t have a thing: Arsène, an African teen who was taken in by two professors. He has nothing left from his real family, except for a suitcase. It’s with this single object that Suzanne will convince him to tell about how he managed to escape the killings that wiped out the rest of his family. This project in turn leads Suzanne to return to the traces of her own tragedy. She goes back to the places of lost happiness, a ritual of remembrance that will help her rediscover her roots and finally live at peace with them. By the grace of writing and imagination.
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EAN : 9782221195666
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 216
Size : 135 x 215 mm
Robert Laffont