I snort, install the autopilot, Get into the boat, open the logbook. I have to force myself not to read it again, Once again, your latest annotations. On the virgin page facing them, I write : Friday 5 June 2009. Cast off Port Camargue 5 Morning hours. 15 Anemometer knots. 10 at log. Compass on 114 Degrees. Calm seas. ”
Thus begins a woman's quest to find her love who disappeared at sea somewhere in the Mediterranean, between Italy, Sicily and Tunisia. On board Vent de Sable, their boat found empty by the Italian Coast Guard, she begins looking for his only love. She, The orphan of the Algerian desert, has found love and the sea with Leo, After a long interior wandering. She can not accept imagine him overboard, he the seasoned sailor, whose body has not been found after several months. It is by sea, by redoing the route made by Leo, that she hopes to unravel the inexplicable disappearance of the man of her life.
Beyond the plot and its maritime environment, It is above all a long inner struggle for this woman in whom the desert and the sea merge. Child without family, having fled Algeria from the massacres, she casts off with all the energy of hope on the tracksl of a passionate love.
A beautiful story, written by a writer who puts great sensitivity into a suspense that goes far beyond a simple thriller. After the heavy historical works read this winter, This is a very pleasant literary return.
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La désirante, Malika Mokkedem – Editions Grasset 2011
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