With Les hyménées barbares (Barbarian Hymenes), Sophie Dieudonné takes us on a long journey into the depths and meanders of human souls and feelings, at the center of which bubbles the noblest, the vilest, the most beautiful, the most abject, the most extraordinary: Love.
A couple: he is Black, she is Métis. They live in Africa. Dagobert, after a difficult and bumpy childhood, is in search of himself. Soraya, loved and protected by her family, is a fulfilled young woman. Beyond the two worlds from which they come, their common roots, their differences push them towards each other. However, Dagobert's refusal to question himself will lead him to perverse and even sordid behavior. Will he cross the Rubicond? Will Soraya's great capacity for resilience, the support of her family, her rage to live prevent her from sinking permanently?
These are the loneliness of two, the difficulties of love and its erosion by time, the inner journeys of the characters that this story expresses, in a succession of scenes - all different - of everyday’s life, sometimes sublime, often overwhelming, but never innocent.
An initiatory journey, a lyrical and intimate story, bordering on surrealism, invites the reader to sail on the stormy river of life.
Sophie Dieudonné is French. She lives in Abidjan. It was very young that she discovered Ivory Coast and it was to it she returned more than fifteen years ago. She writes about Africa while cultivating her roots; and her characters come from the two worlds that forged her.
Author: Sophie Dieudonné
Publisher: Spinelle publishing house
Genre: Novel (Paperback 21 x 14.8 x 1.35 cm)
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 242g
Publication date: June 05, 2020
ISBN: 978-2-37827-245-6
By S.C.
