“This novel is the story of anger, but it’s also the story of silence, how our silences create violence and anger”.
My heart is beating fast is a novel in the form of a quest, that of an impossible forgiveness, that of Edith who tries to understand what pushed her brother Kim to commit an abject murder, Kim who kills fathers and heirs to end a long lineage of violence against women.
In bold and striking writing, Nadia Chonville recounts the transmission of intergenerational trauma, the island, history, anger and madness, and encourages us to come out of silences and confrontations to “get in touch for real”. Nadia Chonville is in line with the great Caribbean writers she admires: Fabienne Kanor, Simone Schwarz-Bart or Nicole Cage.
Guest :
- Nadia Chonville. Martinican author born in 1989. She chooses the fantastic to question the identities and crises of Afro-descendant societies. She teaches history and geography at the Lycée Victor Schoelcher and at the University of the West Indies. She lives in Martinique. His novel My heart is beating fast was published by Mémoire d’Encrier.
And our chronicle ” Elsewhere ” takes us today to Kigali for the 2ᵉ edition of International Meetings of the Francophone Book of Rwandawhich will take place from March 1 to 4. Johan-Hilel Hameldirector of theFrench Institute of Rwandapresents the program and tells us about the place of the French language in Rwanda.