Novel
Une femme dans la lumière de l'aube
Not translated into English
Barnabé Laye · 1988
Synopsis
A young black man born in Villacoublay, heir to two cultures, leaves for the first time for the Africa of his ancestors, which his father's stories had painted for him as warm and alive. There he discovers, far from the clichés of tourist brochures, the joys, sorrows, rites and hopes of a people caught in political turmoil, and shares this ordeal with Germaine, a figure of the African woman. The novel is above all a love story, in which poetry holds a large place.
Context
The book appeared in 1988 from Seghers, in the Chemins d'identité series, which published the following year Mangalor, his second novel, crowned with the Grand Prix littéraire des Hôpitaux de Paris. It opens the fiction of an author known first as a poet, who wanted his novels to accompany his poetry and leave it present everywhere. The tributes paid in 2024 hailed him as a Franco-Beninese poet.
Who it is for
For reading a novel of the eighties written by a poet, between France and Africa.
Prizes and reception
Tahar Bekri, poet and friend of the author, gave a very favourable review of it in the review Notre Librairie.
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