A late review ...

Not bad, but I expected a little more. Rufin is that makes us the blow of thesis novel: it illustrates an idea. I did not find in this book we find this romantic interrogation - in a similar register - at Le Clézio even in Segalen. Heroin, for friendly it is, seems too contemporary to be credible in a setting sixteenth century. Religious conflict is interesting to watch, but I can discern nothing in the author's stance that goes beyond a refusal of all religious and ethnocentric fanaticism. This is not really original. Rufin, I preferred "Asmara" and "Salamander".