Condor
Férey, Caryl2020
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Dans le quartier brulant de La Victoria, a Santiago, quatre cadavres d'adolescents sont retrouves au cours de la meme semaine. Face a l'indifference des pouvoirs publics, Gabriela, jeune videaste mapuche habitee par sa destinee chamanique et les souffrances de son peuple, s'empare de l'affaire. Avec l'aide de son ami Stefano, militant rentre au Chili apres plusieurs decennies d'exil, et de l'avocat Esteban Roz-Tagle, dandy abonne aux causes perdues qui convertit sa fortune familiale en litres de pisco sour, elle tente de percer le mystere. Dans un pays encore gangrene par l'heritage politique et economique de Pinochet, ou les puissances de l'argent regnent en toute impunite, l'enquete derange, les plaies se rouvrent, l'amour devient mystique et les cadavres s'accumulent...In the burning neighborhood of La Victoria, in Santiago, four bodies of teenagers are found during the same week. Faced with the indifference of the government, Gabriela, a young Mapuche videographer inhabited by her shamanic destiny and the suffering of her people, seizes the case. With the help of her friend Stefano, an activist returning to Chile after several decades of exile, and lawyer Esteban Roz-Tagle, dandy subscribes to the lost causes that convert her family fortune into liters of sour pisco, she tries to break through the mysteries. In a country still gangrened by Pinochet's political and economic legacy, where the powers of money reign with impunity, the investigation bothers, the wounds reopen, love becomes mystical, and corpses pile up.
Main title:
Condor / Caryl Ferey.
Author:
Férey, Caryl, author
Imprint:
Paris : Gallimard, 2020.
Collation:
148 pages
Notes:
French text
ISBN:
9782072927638 (pbk)
Language:
French
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BRN:
2534537
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