The black star, Michelle Maillet

With "black star", published by Pocket, Michelle Maillot sign a fiction whose strength comes not only a writing fluid and tense at the same time, but also by the subject that opens a singular view on the camps. Indeed, it has rarely been the question of black people caught in the maelstrom of horror concentration camps. This is what happens to Sidonie and her two children and Nicaie Dsir. Through the fictional character, the author gives visibility to blacks deported. Sidonie, Martinique girl down slaves, follows brilliant studies. A doctor and his women invite the girl to pursue her studies in France. Only in 1943, the situation in the Bordeaux region of the vise closes. Ms. Dubreuil is Jewish. An early morning the couple was arrested. And Sidonie and her two children will be part of the lot. Appalled, Sidonie does not understand. Is not she Catholic? Yes, but she is black enough for the board. In the unspeakable situation of all deportees, Sidonie know the horror of the camps, the death of his daughter, separation from his son, cold, hunger, the worst violence. In his ordeal, it will bind friendships, experience solidarity. But what gives the story its unique character is back on the history of his people. In her family, the question of slavery was taboo. Only his maternal grandparents were talking about. His father, meanwhile, it advice: "Bride who you want but do not back a negro or a coulis, because you n' longer here. Do not forget: there is little time that we came out cursed time of slavery. There is a need for children have a life easier than .Il needs to have "saved the skin." Lyrics hard, and Sidonie too young yet, do not understand why. It was during his experience of deportation that Sidonie appealed to the history of his people, that of slavery. convening, Agenor, a God that s'. This God, she speaks, she implores she confides in him and in this way it "stands". Very beautiful story that depicts a character full of vigour, empathy for others, but also capable of anger, rebellion, small pettiness. The author gives us a true character whose authenticity is its great qualities but also its small defects And then in the hasty departure for the camps, Sidonie has managed to save a small Moleskine notebook black on which it will record what she saw, what she suffered and her companions in misfortune. Thus, the story the first person gives the text its poignant truth. The writing was for it irresistible desire to testify beyond his own death. Michelle Maillet, through his novel, very documented and the world concentration camps and on slavery and its aftermath, gives us a text to read where talent carries the narrative drive. A recommend for everyone from 13 years.