Bessora, on the trail of German orphans in South Africa

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Writer Bessora.

© Antoine Flament

By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

31 min

Born in Brussels in 1968, Bessora grew up in Europe, the United States and Africa.

Following a trip to South Africa, she resumed studies in anthropology in Paris, then published many novels, including "Les Taches Ink", Fénéon Prize in 2001 and "Cueillz-moi jolis Messieurs" which received the Black African Literary Grand Prize in 2007. She met one of those orphans, Peter (right in the cover photo), to whom this novel is dedicated.

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Orphans © JC Lattès

"The story of two children born in Germany and adopted in 1948 by a South African family. A moving novel which is inspired by a little-known historical fact. Bessora offers us the destiny of Wolf and Barbara, how they grow up in this world which was not theirs and which became so by force, how was born their revolt against the Apartheid regime which made use of them, how their powerful desire for freedom and for truth to save."

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