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PresentationAugustin Valbon is an unsuccessful author living in Martinique. One day, he comes across an urn with a long history. In the times of slavery in the West Indies, the rich planters fearing Negro revolts used to bury their fortune in secret hiding places. The slave who had dug the hole was immediately executed and buried near the treasure. Some of these urns were found decades later. In the 50's-60's it was rumored that one such urn contained books, and amongst these, a mysterious Treaty of the ninety powers of the dead. To possess this book was to gain eternal life....Is this the book found in the unearthed urn ? Can this discovery be for real ? Is it a miracle or a mirage...
Raphaël Confiant was born in Martinique. He is the author of several Creole novels, amongst which Le meurtre du Samedi-Gloria (Mercure de France, 1997) who won the RFO prize. |
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