Literature without borders
One land, one author: in Guinea with Tierno Monénembo
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The writer Tierno Monénembo in the studio at RFI (January 2022).
© Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint/RFI
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
1 min
Born July 21, 1947 in Guinea, Tierno Monénembo went into exile in 1969 and lived successively in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire before moving to France in 1973 to continue his studies.
Winner of the Grand Prix for Black Africa, the Renaudot Prize, the Amadou Khourouma Prize, and the Grand Prix de la Francophonie, he is the author of some fifteen books and has just published a new novel "
Saharienne Indigo"
at the Threshold.
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Indigo safari jacket © Seuil
"A girl who fled from her parents' house via the balcony, before finding refuge among the rats, in an abandoned quarry. Another girl, almost the same age, who comes to her aid. Two teenagers with short-sighted ideas and morale of steel, possessed with a fury to live commensurate with the hell they had to go through. The night she jumped out of the window, Véronique Bangoura had just killed her father with his service weapon. isn't reasonable when you're fifteen. However, a mysterious individual in an indigo safari jacket chases her from a nightclub in grubby, and the fugitive experiences the feeling that everyone knows her secret, that she will have to pay for it. One day. Revelation after revelation, it is a whole unknown part of the contemporary history of Guinea which is revealed in this hallucinated ride,Masterfully driven by Tierno Monénembo."
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Seuil editions
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