Flora, Salia and Kai had no reason to meet. However, following a cataclysm which causes them to converge in a single part of the globe, the trajectories of the woman of Flores, the woman of Neanderthal and the woman of sapiens will be brought to cross. Through contact with each other, despite limited means of communication in the absence of a common language, they discover mutual aid, kindness, a form of care and sisterhood that is still little known. An alliance more necessary than ever in the face of the multiple dangers which, from the aurochs to the shortage of water through the aggressiveness of certain hunters, leave them little respite in a hostile environment.
Wilfried N’Sondé, a multi-award-winning novelist born in Brazzaville, but who has lived in Lyon for several years, is in turn trying his hand at the delicate challenge of object storytelling offered by the Musée des Confluences.
Proclaiming the power of fiction where scientific knowledge still remains incomplete, Wilfried N’Sondé offers a veritable fresco of origins, questioning in passing the notions of performance, evolution and diversity, to recall how differences are a source of enrichment, inviting us more than ever to welcome otherness.
This is a text as original as it is fascinating. One of the best parts of this enriching and unique collection§
Born in 1968 in Brazzaville, Wilfried N’Sondé grew up in Île-de-France and lived for twenty-five years in Berlin. He now lives in Lyon. He is the author of seven novels published by Actes Sud, notably Le Cœur des enfants leopards (2007, Prix des Cinq Continents de la francophonie and Senghor prize for literary creation), One ocean, two seas, three continents (2018), which has received around ten literary prizes, including the Ahmadou Kourouma prize, the France Bleu / Page des libraires prize and the L’Express / BFMTV readers’ prize, and Femme du ciel et des temps (2021). The Moon-Eyed Queen was published in 2023 by Robert Laffont. In his stories, Wilfried N’Sondé offers great historical adventures through which he questions the experience of exile, of otherness, as well as our relationship to the living world.
The “Object Stories” collection
| La collection « Stories of objects » |
Since its opening in 2014, the Musée des Confluences has created a collection entitled “Récits d’objets”, which offers novelists the opportunity to write a work of fiction by choosing an object among the 3.5 million in the museum.
This narrative of the object is the editorial translation of the unique approach of the Musée des Confluences: breaking down the barriers between disciplines to understand the complexity of the world, inviting knowledge through curiosity and wonder. Like the museum’s multidisciplinary collections, each of these stories travels at the crossroads of arts, disciplines and imaginations.
Since May 2020, Cambourakis editions have co-published this collection with two titles per year
Literary café “Object stories”
Wednesday October 2 at 6:30 p.m. at the Musée des Confluences
with
Wilfried N’Sonde, auteur
Christian Sermet, head of the exhibitions department
Confluences museum
around
Sisters of yesterday (co-edition Cambourakis/Musée des Confluences)
