Ahmed, 40 ans, est marocain. Il vit à Paris. Il écrit à sa mère, morte cinq ans auparavant, pour régler enfin ses comptes avec elle et lui raconter par la même occasion sa vie ratée d'homosexuel. Il envoie une lettre de rupture violente à Emmanuel, qui a changé son existence, pour le meilleur et pour le pire, en le ramenant en France. Par ailleurs, Ahmed reçoit des lettres de Vincent et de Lahbib. Un roman épistolaire pour remonter le temps jusqu'aux origines du mal. Un livre sur le colonialisme français qui perdure dans la vie amoureuse et sexuelle d'un jeune Marocain homosexuel.
Author
Abdellah Taïa is a Moroccan writer born in Salé in 1973. He grew up in a neighborhood called “Hay Salam” located between Salé and Rabat, where his father Mohammed works at the General Library of the capital. His mother M’Barka, an illiterate housewife, gives so much meaning to his days and accompanies his sleep with her nocturnal melodies. This son of a working-class district and second youngest of a household of ten children is the first Moroccan writer to publicly assume his homosexuality. Abdellah Taïa has been living in Paris since 1999, where he obtained a doctorate in Letters at La Sorbonne University while managing to write 5 books. The last one, called “an Arabian melancholia”, was just published by “Seuil” on March 6th of 2008
