Zoli
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- 12,99 €
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- 12,99 €
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Sur un lac gelé, un bataillon fasciste a rassemblé une communauté tzigane. La glace craque, les roulottes s'enfoncent dans l'eau. Seuls en réchappent Zoli, six ans, et son grand-père, Stanislaus.
Quelques années plus tard, Zoli s'est découvert des talents d'écriture. C'est le poète communiste Martin Stransky qui va la remarquer et tenter d'en faire une icône du parti. Mais c'est sa rencontre avec Stephen Swann, Anglais exilé, traducteur déraciné, qui va sceller son destin. Subjugué par le talent de cette jeune femme, fasciné par sa fougue et son audace, Swann veut l'aimer, la posséder. Mais Zoli est libre comme le vent.
Alors, parce qu'il ne peut l'avoir, Swann va commettre la pire des trahisons...
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In his bittersweet fourth novel, McCann chronicles the imperiled world of the Slovakian Roma (Gypsies, to their enemies) from World War II through the establishment of the Communist bloc. After the pro-Nazi Hlinkas drown the rest of her family, six-year-old Zoli Novotna escapes with her grandfather to join another camp of Roma, where she discovers a gift for singing. At her grandfather's urging, she also breaks a Romani taboo and learns to read and write. She later becomes involved with poet Martin Str nsk , and her poems, which draw on her Roma heritage, are promoted by Martin as the harbinger of a "literate proletariat" and a new Gypsy literature. Her growing fame, however, betrays her when the Communist government appropriates her work for its project to assimilate the Roma. Condemned by her own people and, as a Roma, alienated from the Slovaks, Zoli finds her way to a new home. The narrative switches between third- and first-person, though it is strongest when narrated by Zoli. McCann does a marvelous job of portraying a marginalized culture, and his world of caravans, music and family is rich with sensual detail.
