by Edem · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070774135
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«Port-mélo» is the novel by Edem, published by Gallimard in paperback (178 pages, in French).
In a coastal city in Africa, a militia suppresses any protest and makes its opponents disappear. Manuel, pursued, keeps a notebook with the names of the disappeared; the elderly Cori waits, telling stories, and young Josephine risks her life in that setting. The novel portrays a country that erases the traces of its victims.
The novel belongs to Gallimard's Continents noirs collection and won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire de l'ADELF in 2006.
For readers of contemporary African literature interested in novels about memory, political violence and resistance.
