How good it is to let yourself be carried away by the powerful and gentle voice of Hemley Boum, a 50-year-old Cameroonian novelist, the beautiful age of sorrows overcome and the blossoming of wisdom, a luminous maturity that she shares with us in
The Fisherman's Dream
, the story of three generations of a family from Campo, a coastal village in the south of his country.
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The initial scene introduces us into the intimacy of a home that breathes the peace of happy routines, that of the fisherman Zacharias and his wife, Yalana, who have two little daughters.
Every morning, after tearing himself away from the warmth of his beloved's body, the fisherman joins his canoe at the place where the river meets the ocean.
Meanwhile, Yalana will go to cultivate her field and their daughters will go to the Catholic mission school.
This is their life, like that of their ancestors whose invisible presences inhabit the landscape.
This small rural society formed like
“a choir in which everyone played the necessary part…
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