Un lieu sûr
| Title | Un lieu sûr
roman |
|---|---|
| Original title | The white bone |
| Author | Barbara Gowdy; trad. de l'anglais (Canada) p. Isabelle Reinharez |
| Publication | Actes Sud |
| Size | 392p |
| Language |  FRE |
| ISBN | 2742729038 |
| Topics |
Canadian fiction--English--Translated into French Canadian fiction--Animals Canadian fiction--Africa |
| Notes | The novel is told entirely from the points of view of its elephant characters. Much like real elephants, all female elephants (cows) and prepubescent males (bulls) live in matrilineal family groups, and mature male elephants are loners. The main characters in the novel are mostly from the "She-S" family, into which Mud, a young cow who is pregnant with her first calf, has been adopted. Mud is blessed with visionary powers and can occasionally see into the future. Thrown into a drought, with human poachers becoming increasingly common, Mud and her family must find the legendary "Safe Place" where drought and poachers do not come. The "White Bone," a rib of a newborn elephant, is rumored to be lying somewhere in the savannah and is said to point in the direction of the Safe Place. After a slaughter which leaves most of Mud's adoptive family dead and her best friend, Date Bed, missing, Mud and the remaining She-S elephants set off to find the White Bone and Date Bed. [wikipedia] |
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