A good and beautiful novel that offers us Jean Hatzfeld, with the central character a reporter without borders trying to understand how and why a former Olympic marathon champion finds himself single soldier on the front, lying in the trenches during the conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia. The author offers us an exciting journey through the maze of high performance sport with a young African runner, these instinctive beginnings in his lost lands, his first success and then discover the modern world, sponsors, big cities, glory and doping, but always with his outright soul and the tireless desire to run still run. An original journey into an unknown region from Addis Ababa to Harare, the author immerses us in a unique and fantastic atmosphere, with the harshness of the highlands and incense fragrances, nonchalance camels and the seduction of women covered their silk scarf, the hubbub of the bazaars and the shepherd at rest, the breeze and the torrid desert to the loss seen in the distance and the war still war. A beautiful novel instructive for all travel enthusiasts, simplicity and African philosophy, another great success of Jean Hatfeld.
