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Tala Yuna
by Charles Aubert, published on May 12, 2022 by Éditions Slatkine et cie.
His favorite quote:
“I didn't know how long I had been on this island.
I wasn't even sure how it all started.
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Why this book?
Because we will have to go back a few weeks
to understand why Jonas finds himself on an island, completely haggard, shaggy, as if lost in his thoughts.
He lands in an archipelago, in the heart of an ocean, far from home, with the main quest of finding his father: a man he did not know, who vanished two days before his birth.
But to find him, he will have to survey the islands of the bay.
He will be accompanied by Sam and his brother, who owns a boat.
A strange man, not very talkative, who seems almost threatening.
Because we too climb on this boat,
in search of this father, and here we are embarked on a strange adventure.
As Jonas explores an island, there is an encounter with a young woman.
A furtive appearance, like a dream, a dream that becomes real.
Who is she ?
What is her name ?
What is she doing alone on an island.
This meeting will then make everything explode, like a storm.
Because it's impossible not to get caught
up in Charles Aubert's writing and the atmosphere that emanates from this story.
There is mystery, questions, suspense.
The place of the sea and nature is omnipresent.
I found myself appreciating the technical explanations, which I discovered at the same time as Jonas, carefully noting this very technical vocabulary.
Because I too felt the rolling of the boat,
I tasted the spray from this ocean and I watched for the rising wind.
The wind, this key element of the novel, which punctuates by its intensity the 12 parts of this adventure.
But here the waves and waves are not just breaking at sea, but also in hearts and minds.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Jonas, a successful author, decides to follow in the footsteps of a father he never knew.
Jonas embarks on a manhunt across the islands on a boat led by two brothers who are opposites.
A quest for identity between land and sea, to the rhythm of the wind which intensifies as the journey progresses.
Characters.
Jonas, writer looking for his father.
Sam who is going to accompany him on the boat and his brother.
A young Indian, very mysterious.
Jonah's father.
Some inhabitants of the islands.
Places.
Islands in the Thousand Islands Archipelago.
An old dilapidated cabin.
A boat
The time.
Nowadays.
The author.
Charles Aubert, thanks to a change of life, leaves the city and settles in the south of Montpellier with his family.
His first novel and first volume of a trilogy, Bleu Calypso, was published in 2019. This title is independent of the other novels.
This book was read with
passion and ardour.
I was completely bewitched by this novel imbued with nature, spirituality and philosophy and which gives us a more than successful suspense.
If you had to read only one novel this spring, it's this one.
What an adventure, what a novel!
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