In G major

Caroline Laurent, the ocean identity

Audio 48:30

Caroline Laurent © Philippe Matsas

By: Yasmine Chouaki

1 min

I was hot, but I had feet.

I was thirsty and I was ashamed while reading "Shore of Anger", Caroline Laurent's second novel.

400 pages of total immersion in the blue of the Indian Ocean, with the smell of octopus, Creole loves and historical scandal.Rebroadcast

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Or how, when Mauritius gained independence, the British rented Diego Garcia Island in the Chagos Archipelago from the Americans to set up a military base there.

Metis novel prize and as we speak, in the running for the 5 continents prize, this novel raises questions of justice, identity, otherness, colonial inventory.

A headwind battle of a Franco-Mauritian orchestrated by a feather that has a crush on Mauritian drums and rice candy.

Here we are a priori far from the songs of Maldoror (which she adores)... but far compared to what, compared to which shore?

Shore of Anger

,

 by

Caroline Laurent

has just been published in pocket format by Pocket.

Caroline Laurent's musical choices 

Vivaldi

Gemo in un punto e fremo

David Walters

Manye

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