This Sunday, November 17, the 8e edition of the Livres en fête fair at the Foirail Theater in Chemillé-en-Anjou. The guest of honor is Roxane Dambre. Among the sixty writers expected, Dorline Bruneau will present “Stolen Childhood”.
In this work, she has chosen to put crafted words on her life, between the sub-Saharan Africa of her youth and the banks of the Maine today; a less calm route than the Loire and Ouémé combined. Between sorrows and hopes, the author hides nothing of the hardships suffered, but nevertheless, with each low blow, she delivers her recipe to keep her head above water. The reader goes from chilling pages of this epic to paragraphs of shared joys.
“This book is my life! »
I wanted to exteriorize what had been buried inside me for years,
the writer explained to us as they came off the presses. This book is my life, but the message is universal. Society must stop child abuse. Already in my songs
(Dorline Bruneau is a Beninese singer under the stage name Nono Miwa – see YouTube, Editor’s note), the listener can perceive this message of tolerance and love, but I needed a space larger than these three and a half minutes to express myself.
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The book opens in November 2016. Through chapters constructed between current life and flashbacks, she remembers her youth in Benin and Togo, between small joys and great mistreatment, between chores and school. The reader enters a universe where the life of work, the twisted blows make this person of heart sink and rise to the surface who, constantly, clings to the least bad person to bounce back. We don't forget anything, we live with it
concludes Dorline Bruneau.
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