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When Tian Sen, a young Chinese dune score of years, boarded the 23 Ming Sing, he does not yet know that this is a living hell. As the two hundred other riders of this shabby and rusty freighter, he fled China without an opportunities to reach Haiti and from there, America, utopian promise of a better future. But, deep in himself, he is not sure of his motives and the long sea journey will be for him, beyond the terrible trials that go on littering, an average dy see clearly on itself on what he wants to be on lacceptable or not, on those he discovered in the distance that he loves them and that he never had to leave the naurait.

Housed in the hold with prohibition to show when limmonde tub crosses the coast, the two unfortunate cents will be left to the will of a man, the true master on board, ship-Chef Yap as they will not soon the nickname.

As soon as they will start off hitting, bullying, confiscations. Yap is a constant reign of terror to keep them under its control. In sub-feeding, refusing to care for the sick more and more lack of minimal medical standards, he has sassurer unchallenged domination with a crew and a captain in his thank you. Yap is a man of little faith Ming Sing will gradually trying to decode lapprivoiser. This former Red Guard boat people made traffic a business and specialty seems to be a journey of no return which sows corpses into the sea as and as the disease, brutality or violence strike.

As the days go by, the anguish rises. An anguish maintained by manipulation, not nhésitant Yap alternating favors and punishments to better go up against clandestine each other, any attempt to suppress mutiny yet eventually happen before davorter confused.

For many among the clandestine members as déquipage, death will be the end of the stern and travel a total disillusionment As the days pass, which the food Savarie that the fuel runs out without any land in sight.

Every day that offers young sécoule Tian Sen occasion to mature. He who took refuge under the helmet of his man to walk-sisoler of the horror and the other can no longer flee when the device will eventually make soul. He who has vainly tried to protect some of abused, treating them with the means at hand, to offer them a funeral ceremony in the tradition will learn to play the other, to survive while all around death lurks. Ultimately, this is a seasoned man who has survived the many traps set, has learned the trick while keeping intact his soul, refusing the compromises that emerge.

Carl de Souza has found a poignant theme for his novel. One can regret a lack of literary mastery, lack of breath, and sometimes even a certain confusion in the plot that make this book could have been excellent, nen is better than good.

Published by Editions de Lolivier 2001 205 pages

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