"The Shadows of the World," we read Michel Bussi's new novel
Review Against the backdrop of the Rwandan genocide, the author interweaves fiction and historical facts.
Michel Bussi. PHILIPPE MATSAS/LES PRESSES DE LA CITÉ
Hidden behind a pile of students' papers to be graded and her short-sighted glasses, Espérance, a math teacher in Kigali, is not the kind of girl to attract the attention of the French military. Even less so to let herself be fooled by them. This melts the heart of Captain Jorik Arteta. It is 1990, at the Hotel des Mille Collines, when the Rwandan woman and the Basque man join forces. Four years later, the sky is ablaze with the crash...
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