What happened there four years, five months and thirteen days, that Laura, the daughter of Adam and Anita, is now disabled, Adele (who is she?) Has lost life, and Adam is from that time imprisoned? The novel will tell us, gently and lucidity taking its reader in suspense until the end.
Adam and Anita met young, feeling like two strangers in the middle they frequented, she the daughter of the islands to the skin "brown" him to become a painter. He dreams of being an artist, she dreams of writing, it will architect and freelance in a regional newspaper. They have a daughter, Laura, will live in the provinces, and meet another lost beauty originally from Mauritius: Adele, who will be part of the family almost. Each with its buried dreams, his injuries will confront a more mundane reality and painful.
What is striking in this novel, in addition to the fine writing, precise, elegant and yet seemingly so simple, it is the multiplicity of topics. Artistic dreams to professional reality, compromises found, the routine moves to the couple, exile, skin color, prejudice, the daily reality of undocumented richness of the novel is, in watermark.
A beautiful novel.
