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Marceline Bodier, author and contributor to the reading group "20 Minutes Books", recommends Rivage de la anger by Caroline Laurent, published on January 9, 2020 by Les Escales.
Favorite quotation:
"She was suspicious of herself, of her overly full feelings, of her furious, overflowing impulses. The pain had become his horizon; his serenity impossible. "
Why this book?
- Because this book sheds light on an important part of the history of the twentieth century when Mauritius gained its independence in 1967, it sold to Britain a remote desert island and allegedly in order to into a military base in the Indian ocean. In reality, it was inhabited, and its inhabitants were expelled brutally. In 2020, they are still not returned, despite several judgments in their favor.
- Because her mother told the author about her passage through the island during a stopover when she was a child. Dazzled passage, taste of earthly paradise ... but already, two sides of the barrier; and his mother was the good side. In September 2018, Caroline Laurent was associated with the delegation of Chagossian descendants led by Olivier Bancoult, who this time will plead their case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The two sides of the barrier united in combat: their association is already a symbolic victory…
- Because in February 2019, the UN recognized that the right of peoples to self-determination had been violated and that the United Kingdom must end its administration of the archipelago. Certainly, says the author, "so far, each lawsuit won by the Chagossians has been overturned by the British administration." However, today, when Caroline Laurent's book comes out, it's the last step in date.
- Because the book is fiction, which tells the story of Mary Ladouceur, Chagossian bewitching, simple and proud of his love with Gabriel, who came from Mauritius, their son Joséphin. It tells of a lost paradise, which, like any lost paradise, may never have been a golden age and subsisted under the yoke of colonialism which provided nothing to educate children. But he had his culture, his history, his cuisine, his rites, his joys and his sorrows, which afterwards took on the poignant color of the irreplaceable and are resurrected in the book.
- Because Caroline Lawrence is not only an author already noticed when she coauthored Suddenly freedom with Evelyne Pisier She also launched the collection at Arpège Stock and edited Beautiful unfaithful Romane Lafore, which I have already said what thunderbolt this book was for me. An author who launches the others, writes with the others, supports the others and transcribes their struggle: even more than the construction of a work, it is that of a journey and a personality that we are witnessing!
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The plot. At 21, on her Chagos Island, Marie sees a beautiful young man arrive. They love each other in the evidence of an encounter, separate in the brutality of the deportation. It will be up to their son to say "And my mouth will be the mouth of misfortunes which have no mouth ...".
Characters. When the court makes its ruling in 2019, Joséphin feels in himself "a huge wave" that "began to spoof faces" Gabriel, Ranjit, Evelyne, Josette Makine, Marcel, Angela, Suzanne ... and above all, says -it, "I thought of my mother." A surge as much joy as bitter ...
Places. The Chagos archipelago is a small point on the map 3000 km from Mauritius, and the island of Diego Garcia is a small point among the small points. Paradise for its inhabitants, site coveted by the military, case study of the dramas of colonization: small point, but not invisible…
The time. August 7, 1967: the Mauritian people voted in favor of their independence, but the Chagos were sold to the British. February 25, 2019: The Court of The Hague affirms that "The Chagos had to return to the Chagossians". Between the two, fifty years of struggle, evoked so romanticized.
The author. Caroline Laurent unveils a piece of family history in the afterword of the book. Her family was on the right side of the fence, but they joined the fight of those who were robbed. Because when you tear people from their land in violence, can there be a good side?
This book was read with revolt by Marceline Bodier, “passionate and eclectic reader, always on the lookout for my next crush! ".
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