his father’s way

Sdinner is a misleading title, because there is no question here of an expedition to Africa or hunting wild animals. Sabri Louatah made a sensational entry into literature with her tetralogy adapted into a TV series for Canal+, The Savages (it was not about animals either, although it featured political “beasts”).

In his new novel, Safari is an Iranian-turned-American painter who reveals in his paintings a deserted corner of America from which someone has just disappeared. “Safari” is also the profession of which the narrator has designated himself, a sort of “plumber”, because he is a writer who writes above all for others, but with a singular goal: to narrate imaginary life and wonderful of a missing person. It turns out that it’s a subject that touches him closely: it’s been twenty years since his father left without a word, without reason and left his family with many unanswered questions.

Right words

A father of whom everyone praised this rare quality: he was…