An English teacher and writer, Sully Quay has lived in South Korea, Poland and Hungary, an experience she recounted in her story “I’m an Expat and So What?“. She has just published her first novel in French under the title “A starless prisoner», published by Ramsay.
“In 1932, Sylvestre Kponta left Togo for Chicago to pursue his medical studies. A brilliant student, son of a wealthy family and a handsome man, he was confronted with racial segregation and decided to go to Paris, inspired by the he example of Josephine Baker Full of dreams and hopes, having arrived in the city of light and city of love, he comes up against the contradictions of his success as a surgeon and the constant racism he suffers.
Sylvestre’s life becomes complicated after he meets Ana, a German interpreter. They fall madly in love with each other. This secret love seems to work for them. But how can this idyll survive?
Everything changed in early 1944. Sylvestre was arrested by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz. He manages to cope with the tortures of the camp thanks to the solidarity between prisoners and the letters he writes to Ana.
She does everything in Paris to find him and free him, risking his life.
Will she manage to save her lover from certain death in the Nazi camps?
A novel inspired by real facts about the condition of blacks during Nazism in Europe.
FOCUS ON THE “Voices of Africa” PRIZE (RFI/JC Lattès) whose 4th edition has just been launched.
Meeting with Anne-Sophie Stefanini, publisher at JC Lattès, who recalls all the procedures for participating in the prize.