Return to the Enchanted Island: A Novel

In this exhilarating prize-winning novel—only the second to be published in English from Madagascar—a young man comes of age amidst the enchanted origin myths of his island country.
Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was raised to perpetuate the glory of his namesake and expected to be as illuminated as his Great Ancestor. But in the chaos of modernity, his young life is marked only by restlessness, maddening insomnia, and an adolescent apathy.
When an unexpected tragedy ships him off to a boarding school in France, his trip to the big city is no hero’s journey. Ietsy loses himself in the immediate pleasures of body and mind. Weighed down by his privilege and the legacy of his name, Ietsy struggles to find a foothold.
Only a return to the “Enchanted Island,” as Madagascar is lovingly known, helps Ietsy stumble toward his destiny. This award-winning retelling of Madagascar’s origin story offers a distinctly twenty-first-century perspective on the country’s place in an ever-more-connected world.

Literature & Fiction

RAVALOSON, Johary

Literary

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Un surfeur malgache vit à La Réunion avec son grand amour, B. L''histoire commence légère, comme une vague sous le soleil et le vent docile. Puis la rugosité de la vie s''en mêle, une histoire d''amour se tisse sur fond de manifestations d''étudiants à Paris, en suivant le fil d''un retour au pays, Madagascar. Et, inexorablement, comme la mer devient parfois cruelle et violente, l''histoire se tord, s''enroule, devient une quête existentielle. Des sensibilités se heurtent, des individualités se découvrent, la vague se creuse, devient un gouffre où l''amour et la mort s''observent. Cette force en mouvement, celle de la vie, celle de la mer, pousse notre histoire de surfeurs vers une réalité plus complexe : un tropisme, un géotropisme.

Geotropiques

Genre Fiction

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