"Frakas", a noir novel on the Cameroon war
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The thriller "Frakas", by Thomas Cantaloube.
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By: Sophie Torlotin Follow
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After
Requiem pour une République
, a noir novel which took place in the Algerian war in 1962, the writer Thomas Cantaloube takes up his characters and projects them this time in Cameroon.
His new novel, entitled
Frakas
, has just been published in the Série Noire by Gallimard.
Former journalist at
Mediapart
, Thomas Cantaloube wanted to bring the war in Cameroon from oblivion just after decolonization.
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