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Laure Happymanda, contributor to the

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by Estelle Tharreau, winner of the Unknown Authors' Prize in the "black literature" category for her book published on October 1, 2020 by Éditions Taurnada.

Awarded by some thirty bloggers and literary bloggers, this prize crowns a book that has been self-published or published in a small publishing house during the past year in four categories: white literature, black literature, fantasy and romance.

Her favorite quote:

A few hours before death, these men no longer had time to innovate or risk being disappointed.

No, they needed sure values ​​and comfort.

Why this book?

• Because this book, which had already won the 2021 prize for the black novel

  from the media libraries and libraries of Grand Cognac, won the Unknown Authors Prize on December 21 in the “Black literature” category, which is a guarantee of quality.

  The executioner's sentence

  , "behind closed doors in a prison environment which takes place in Texas", marked the jury because "the reader is also trapped on death row", but also because "he takes a universal meaning which holds up a mirror to our society "and" judges this world which is going so badly ".

• Because this gripping novel will shake your convictions

  on this act of "humanly" killing a culprit.

  These actors of a legal murder are seen here from the inside.

  The author decodes their thoughts and makes us feel them with a chilling narration.

  An excellent psychological novel, the author has the art of dissecting the human mind and permeating that of his reader.

  I was suspended in the last hours of this condemned man hoping for the Governor's pardon.

• Because we do not repeat a trial, the crimes are proven

  and condemnable, it is a thorough and argued reflection of the death penalty in the name of justice and culture.

  Through the memories of the executioner unfold the last 40 years of a Puritan America with racism rooted in the depths of its flesh.

• Because it is a subject of strong controversy,

  tackling it to write a novel is a risky bet, but Estelle Tharreau has dared to show us with a lot of narrative talent the back of an already poor setting.

  It pushes us not to position ourselves as a simple citizen justice by the word, but to imagine well beyond this infinite penalty.

  I hope this novel will open minds.

  
  

The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

 Ed 0451 will be executed for the murder of 5 people.

We are going to live our last four hours on death row, awaiting a hypothetical pardon from the governor.

The executioner retraces his journey and all the infinite pains involved in this act to supposedly do justice.

Characters.

 Ed 0451 the condemned to death, Mc Coy the executioner, Governor Johnson.

Places.

 Texas jail.

The time.

 Today and a journey through time through conservative America for the past 40 years.

The author.

 Estelle Tharreau is a French author passionate about literature since adolescence, from this love of literature was born the desire to write.

After working in the private and public sector, she released her first novel in 2016, since then she has devoted herself entirely to writing.

This book was read

 in a time suspended with infinite pain and paralyzing fear towards a programmed end.

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