"Des décennies après son départ, la narratrice, une romancière de renom, revient dans le village qui l'a vue naître. Dès son arrivée, elle est en butte à l'hostilité des villageois qui l'accusent d'avoir sali dans ses livres leur réputation et leurs familles. Tandis qu'elle retrouve les visages, les lieux et les odeurs de son enfance, son histoire la submerge. Lui revient en mémoire son passé, et un terrible secret de famille si longtemps gardé refait surface. Encouragée par la parole, testamentaire de son maître spirituel et auteur du Prophète Khalil Gibran, dont l'ombre plane sur le village, elle veut dévoiler l'indicible, s'en affranchir et rendre justice." -- back cover. "Decades after her departure, the narrator, a renowned novelist, returns to the village where she was born. As soon as she arrives, she is the target of the hostility of the villagers who accuse her of having sullied their reputation and their families in her books. As she rediscovers the faces, places and smells of her childhood, her story overwhelms her. Her past comes back to her, and a terrible family secret so long kept resurfaces. Encouraged by the word, testamentary of her spiritual master and author of the Prophet Khalil Gibran, whose shadow hovers over the village, she wants to reveal the unspeakable, free herself from it and do justice." -- back cover.
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