“She did not come on a makeshift boat, crowded among dozens of men and women. She nearly drowned while waiting for Italian coastguards to pull her out of the water and for European media cameras to film her tears on dry land. She didn't flee a war zone. No, she is from the Democratic Republic of Congo.”
In the prelude to his novel, which tells the story of a young middle-class woman from Kinshasa, who arrives by plane in Paris to seek asylum, the author thus warns that she will not seek to pity the reader, to hold him hostage with a sensationalized narrative, and she keeps her promise.
Raozy Pellerin, 40, is a lawyer specializing in international crimes.
Her first novel did not make a stir in the literary season, no doubt because she chose not to force the line but to retrace, in the most fair and nuanced way possible, the destiny of an ordinary person. among the thousands of migrants…
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