A novel that takes us into the torments of black African colonization.

I mean a novel because with the subtitle "The novel of colonization" there is the will of the author made clear that the characters in his works are simply invented for the occasion and established practice dedicated "Any similarity is purely coincidental ....". We must not look in this story a form of repentance, exaltation of colonization, or condemnation of it, whatever ... we quickly understand which side of the heart of the narrator.

600 pages I have hardly seen without. But Jean-Claude Derey, I usually, his novel "Papua" had made me exactly the same impression. It is clear, it is self-evident at times one has the impression of dealing with François Cavanna. Oh, he does not avoid certain clichés, but we forgive him quickly because the sentence has already led us in following the action.

To summarize therefore, since there is no hedging on 4th AMAZON. They are three siblings, or rather three, because they were the adored sister Amina Diallo and Yambo two brothers disappeared while she was at "service" GIMBERT police chief "Grand Bassam" a locality the current Ivory Coast. Diallo, the elder of the two did go to the Catholic mission with Mompa, the missionary priest who is more concerned with feeding the belly of his flock their soul, but he did not want to know the lifestyle of "Toubab "(The White) and hides to eighteen years in the cheese to escape the raids of goumiers ... and latex harvesting heads. Yambo, he called Ulysses by Mompa, is 16 years old, he passed his school certificate and would like to become a writer. It's a charming boy to the incomparable distributed that will do for a time the happiness of the governor of Ivory Coast ... It seems to me that I should not go further, except to say that it takes place before and during the Great War and that white women are the forbidden fruit of African negroes .... That should be enough to know whether this novel will interest you, at least I do not resell you mine.