Part of the Institute’s Black History Month, this evening turns on heritage and belonging.
In Eve Guerra’s first novel, Annabella, a young French-Congolese student, learns of her father’s death in Cameroon and sets out to return his body to France, unravelling the colonial history and generations of family silences behind her own life.
Rapatriement (Grasset, 2024) won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman; Clodagh Kinsella’s translation, Repatriation, was published this year by Foundry Editions.
Meet Eve Guerra
- East Bristol Books
Mon 26 of October
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Voce Books, Birmingham
Wed 28 of October
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About the Author
Ève Guerra is a French writer whose roots go back to both the Congo and Italy. She grew up in the Republic of Congo, which she fled at the age of nine during the civil war that raged in the country from 1998 to 1999. Today she teaches Latin, ancient Greek and French, works as a columnist for the French literary magazine Lire, and has published a collection of poetry. Rapatriement (Grasset, 2024), her first novel, won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman and the Prix Transfuge du Meilleur Premier Roman français. It tells the story of a family and the secrets a death forces into the open.