Salina, les trois exils

Who will tell the story of Salina, the mother of three sons, the woman with three exiles, the child abandoned to tears of salt? She was collected by Mamambala and raised as her daughter in a clan that never saw her other than foreign and who wanted to subdue her. In the evening of her life, it is her last son who tells what she was, so that death offers her the rest that life has denied her, so that the story becomes a legend. Renewing with the mythical and archaic vein of The Death of King Tsongor , Laurent Gaudé writes the painful gesture of a luminous, powerful and savage heroine, who took love for a due and revenge for a reason to live.--Actes Sud.