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DOUCES DÉROUTES

by Yanick Lahens

Women singersFictionChildren of murder victims

Francis, a young French journalist, has just arrived in Haiti when he hears the evening of his arrival, in the restaurant-bar Korosol, the intense voice of Brune, the singer with magnetic charm. He falls in love. Judge Berthier, who is none other than the father of Brune, perhaps one of the few of his profession to have remained totally honest despite the risks, has just been murdered. Brune tries to continue her journey despite the pain, the shock, the thirst for understanding. However, she does not resign herself, despite the advice that her boyfriend Cyprien, who is also a former student of her father, gives her. She is slowly recovering, but tries to understand, to know why this man who taught her everything - music, love, demand - died so violently .. She is helped in this by Peter, her uncle. He also lives on the margins of Haitian society, he has had to go into exile for many years, because his homosexuality presented a risk for him as much as for his family.^ So even if everything tells them that this investigation is doomed to fail, that the truth cannot emerge from lowlands or mystery, horror or misery, everyone tries to understand to rebuild. They are assisted and suppor

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Book data: Open Library