Miguel Bonnefoy, the pen and the blood

Portrait of the writer Miguel Bonnefoy.

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For his third novel, the Franco-Venezuelan writer Miguel Bonnefoy tells the story of a family between France and Chile over four generations.

A novel about exile and the power of the imagination.

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Imagine a feather drawing a bridge.

The feather of an owl, condor or buzzard from the Andes Mountains.

An alert and magical feather, soaked in ink red like the blood of war, blue like the sky, brown like the land of the Ancestors, green like a vineyard, yellow like a winter sun.

A feather that would draw a bridge over the Atlantic, between France and Chile, between Europe and America, between the French language and the Latin American imagination, between the past and the future too.

This feather, it exists, it is that of

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It publishes the novel of a family over four generations.

A family saga full of fantasy, a dreamlike ballet between remorse and pride, between the human and the inhuman, between life and death.

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”, by Miguel Bonnefoy, has been published by Rivages editions.

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went to see the play

which is being performed at the Théâtre de la Reine Blanche, in Paris.

A show directed and written by Julie Timmerman about "Chiquita Brands International", the famous Banana company, symbol of American imperialism.

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