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Henua / Marin Ledun.

Van Pelt Library PQ2712.E33 H46 2025
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ledun, Marin, author.
Series:
Série noire
Série noire, 0768-1712
Language:
French
Subjects (All):
Murder--Investigation--French Polynesia--Marquesas Islands--Fiction.
Murder.
Mothers--French Polynesia--Marquesas Islands--Assassination--Fiction.
Mothers.
Genre:
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.
Physical Description:
412 pages ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
[Paris, France] : Gallimard, 2025.
Language Note:
In French.
Summary:
"Henua . Henua. La terre natale, la terre-mère.. Henua Ènana, la Terre des Hommes, véritable nom de l'archipel des Marquises, où est retrouvé le corps de Paiotoka O'Connor, une jeune mère respectée, éprise de liberté, aimant passionnément Nuku Hiva, son île.. Le lieutenant de gendarmerie Tepano Morel - né d'un père métropolitain et d'une mère marquisienne - est dépêché depuis Tahiti pour enquêter, secondé sur place par Poerava Wong. Si ses investigations lui révèlent progressivement l'envers du paradis marquisien, elles lui permettent également de renouer avec ses racines et la mémoire de sa mère, personnalité connue de beaucoup sur l'île.. Jonglant avec les fantômes de son passé et sa quête de vérité, le lieutenant découvre un pays rongé par les conséquences de la colonisation et hanté par le spectre des essais nucléaires français, où le silence est d'or et où les secrets sont bien gardés...." -- page 4 of the cover
"Henua. Henua. The native land, the Mother Land .. Henua ènana, the land of men, a true name of the archipelago of the Marquesas, where the body of Paiotoka O'Connor is found, a young respected mother, in love with freedom, passionately loving Nuku Hiva, his island .. the lieutenant of gendarmerie Tepano Morel -- born of a metropolitan father and a Marquisian mother -- is dispatched to Tahiti to investigate, seconded on the spot by Poerava Wong. If his investigations gradually reveal to him the reverse of Marquisian paradise, they also allow him to reconnect with his roots and the memory of his mother, a personality known to many on the island. Juggling with the ghosts of his past and his quest for truth, the lieutenant discovers a country plagued by the consequences of colonization and haunted by the specter of French nuclear tests, where the silence is gold and the secrets are well and where..." -- cataloger's translation
ISBN:
9782073044174
2073044174
OCLC:
1509631291

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