"This route was called the literature"

We now know, from the publication of a "leopard tourniquet" that the true destiny of Jean Christophe Rufin is literature. Predictably reading the first novel of this "humanitarian medical advisor diplomat." I read the Abyssinian, as I had read in fifteen years the Three Musketeers. "The author does not hide his admiration for A. Dumas.Oui the Abyssinian is a great (big) novel. Jean Christophe Rufin has ably different strings, which make good novels: love, travel, turnovers, exoticism, history, complemented by some fundamental reflections on men and their passions.Mais the story is also served by a style clear, use carefully chosen words, a simple and well-organized text. The Abyssinian has not stolen his Goncourt Prize First Novel. I knew the humanitarian and what he wrote, I discovered the novelist and I see well be his true calling.