A forbidden forest, strange creatures, two abandoned little girls and immemorial times: The one who dreamed of tigers looks like a traditional tale. However, no prince charming on the horizon, no damsel in distress either. Gender stereotypes give way to sorority and the fight against inequalities. Kishi and his younger daughter, Nuna, wash up on the shores of the village of Sel. Years later, the eldest goes looking for their mother in the bamboo forest, populated by Oni Yama witches and tigers. On the other side, in Fange, lives Waban. The men there all suffer the disastrous fate of sulfur miners, at the top of a volcano. One day, Kishi and Waban meet. And in our hearts, a fire et All our ordinary dreams (Sarbacane editions, respectively in 2021 and 2023) already featured teenage loves. This third novel by Elodie Chan takes on a poetic and mythical character, in an imaginary world.
“It’s a witch’s molt”
“Waterfowl, your bodies /are jungles filled with fever”we can read from the first page. In full metamorphosis or bruised, they are the raw material of the story. Kishi’s is “too crude to be that of a woman / too elongated and curved to remain that of a child”. Sometimes she goes completely into herself and “With her eyes closed, / she searches for her consciousness / feels how it circulates / lively and luminous / everywhere inside
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