Annie Lulu, from Bucharest to Bukavu the confluence of a lifetime
Portrait of the novelist Annie Lulu who publishes © Francesco Gattoni
By: Jean-François Cadet Follow
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From the shores of the Black Sea of Romania to the Great Lakes of Congo, Annie Lulu signs a first moving, luminous and revolted novel in a long quest for identity.
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Annie Lulu's
first book
is a very beautiful story.
That of a mother who speaks to her unborn son.
She talks to the baby about her parents and grandparents.
Over the pages, the story turns out to be a quest for identity, that of this young woman with an unusual destiny, born in Iasi, in the Moldovan region of northeast Romania, in December 1989, at the same time as The Romanian revolution broke out which would bring down the communist dictatorship.
Her name is Nili, and she is the daughter of Elena, a Romanian university professor, and Exaucé Makasi, a committed Congolese, admirer of Patrice Lumumba whom she has never been able to know.
Annie Lulu's “The Black Sea in the Great Lakes”, published by Julliard editions, plunges us from Bucharest to Goma, via Paris and Kinshasa, into a unique family destiny, in which shame and pride rub shoulders. hatred and love, violence and hope.
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