Touhfat Mouhtare
Touhfat Mouhtare is a Comorian writer and the second published woman writer from Comoros.
In VERT CRU, we read of a summer that starts like so many others. A flight that does not go as planned.
A tragedy that leaves a population and many lives turned upside down, including that of Rhen, orphan of an adoptive father and now orphan of her origins.
An accident that forces her to face these questions that she dared not ask, that she buried a little more every day, secretly hoping never to have to ask them.
Back in the lands where she was born, she will have to face all those lives which, beyond her existence, have been deeply marked by that of her mother.
VERT CRU is Mouhtare's first novel. It received a "special mention" from the jury of the Ouessant literary festival in France.
A polyphonic novel, built around the character of Rhen, returning to the Comoros after the death of his father in a crash in the Yeemenia Airways in 2009. A tragedy that plunged the Comorians into deep trauma, the after-effects still being palpable today.
The return to the sources is the object of a real introspection on the part of the character, in search of his identity, his roots and his history. The other characters act as doubles, alter egos.
The story continues intimately around another tragedy, that of slavery. It is a question of denial, of a humiliation which is perpetuated in an insidious way, within the population: “Your history is rooted in an older history.
A story that no one on this island dares to tell, and which, however, explains many things. The author looks at taboos, and takes the opportunity to weave other stories related to intimacy.
Uprooting, exile, family secrets (lies and things left unsaid), maternal love or filiation and transmission: “This country is the temple of amnesia. The denial of his god, whom thousands of souls venerate and honor every day”.
The book is designed like a novel with drawers.
All the characters become central and give the impression of eclipsing the main character at times, who becomes a spectator and listener to her own story: "Once again, she found herself in a situation that reminded her of the abyssal void that constituted her pass ".
A novel deeply rooted in the imagination of the Comoros, Touhfate Mouhtare transports the reader to the tales, myths and legends of her country: "the narcissistic young woman will be reborn daughter of the waters", reappearing every seven years, unearthing buried secrets and restoring "love, true, stripped of all the vile intentions for which men substitute it”.
In VERT CRU, we read of a summer that starts like so many others. A flight that does not go as planned.
A tragedy that leaves a population and many lives turned upside down, including that of Rhen, orphan of an adoptive father and now orphan of her origins.
An accident that forces her to face these questions that she dared not ask, that she buried a little more every day, secretly hoping never to have to ask them.
Back in the lands where she was born, she will have to face all those lives which, beyond her existence, have been deeply marked by that of her mother.
VERT CRU is Mouhtare's first novel. It received a "special mention" from the jury of the Ouessant literary festival in France.
A polyphonic novel, built around the character of Rhen, returning to the Comoros after the death of his father in a crash in the Yeemenia Airways in 2009. A tragedy that plunged the Comorians into deep trauma, the after-effects still being palpable today.
The return to the sources is the object of a real introspection on the part of the character, in search of his identity, his roots and his history. The other characters act as doubles, alter egos.
The story continues intimately around another tragedy, that of slavery. It is a question of denial, of a humiliation which is perpetuated in an insidious way, within the population: “Your history is rooted in an older history.
A story that no one on this island dares to tell, and which, however, explains many things. The author looks at taboos, and takes the opportunity to weave other stories related to intimacy.
Uprooting, exile, family secrets (lies and things left unsaid), maternal love or filiation and transmission: “This country is the temple of amnesia. The denial of his god, whom thousands of souls venerate and honor every day”.
The book is designed like a novel with drawers.
All the characters become central and give the impression of eclipsing the main character at times, who becomes a spectator and listener to her own story: "Once again, she found herself in a situation that reminded her of the abyssal void that constituted her pass ".
A novel deeply rooted in the imagination of the Comoros, Touhfate Mouhtare transports the reader to the tales, myths and legends of her country: "the narcissistic young woman will be reborn daughter of the waters", reappearing every seven years, unearthing buried secrets and restoring "love, true, stripped of all the vile intentions for which men substitute it”.
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