Leila, a Toulouse heroine, a novel born of a trip and an overwhelming encounter

"Leila", a captivating thriller by Guillaume Coquery span> d.r.

an idea born in the desert Mauritanian span> span>

"Leila's idea came to me from my trip to Mauritania. I stayed there for six months, says Guillaume Coquery. This is an unexpected encounter that sparked everything : I met Mériem, a young woman I helped get a position to which she could not claim, only because of her birth. » span> span>

this relationship, which the author describes as "the order of the father-daughter relationship, even the figure of the old wise man", he opens up a social reality that he said. His life, his youth, his hopes. I told myself that it was an extraordinary material to make a book. "Today, he no longer has contact with Mériem," our reports have been distended under social pressure, "he confides without bitterness. span> span>

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read Leila, impossible not to feel the almost ethnographic immersion in Mauritanian society . How did the author have worked this clarification? span>

"The big subject of this book is ethnocentrism. When I arrived, I was a complete beginner. I discovered a company that I loved as much as hated . Love for this country went hand in hand with a deep misunderstanding of certain aspects: interethnic relations, the remains of slavery ... "
Guillaume Coquery describes a brutal reality :" In Mauritania, I have met people still in a state of slavery for whom this situation is completely normal. From school, children are separated according to their origin. I saw beautiful and other terrible things there. It's not easy to talk about it with our Western eyes. But it's essential . Racism, ethnocentrism, relationships of domination do not only concern one continent, only one skin color. » span>

leila, a heroine Toulousaine span> span>

leila is not just a social testimony, it is above all a novel, carried by a strong character . Why is Leila a woman? And why is she from Toulouse?

"At the start, I wanted to write on Rwanda. But I didn't have legitimacy. So I imagined a Rwandan heroine, collected by a couple of French cooperants, who grew up in Toulouse. It has African roots, but French codes. » span> span>

for Guillaule Coquery, This narration could only exist through a woman : "In Mauritania, the position of a woman is much more complex. There is a total absence of contact between men and women. putting an adventurous woman at the center of the story allowed me to explore this invisible border . » span> span>

and he insists: "It is not to check boxes. This is because this story had more strength told by a woman of color, faced with a society where everything is partitioned. » span> span> span>

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a long writing, a doubt permanent span> span>

leila has not been a long, calm river to write. " This is the book that asked me the most efforts and caused me the most doubts. I wrote three radically different versions. The first was a long, a little too static monologue. The second evolved thanks to one of my first readers. And the third is the one you read today. » span> span>

writing has spread over three years. "I started even before damn Karma . I let the manuscript sleep several times. At one point, I even decided that he would never come out. And then I was pushed to resume the project, to restructure everything. Today, I don't regret it. » span>

a sequel for Leila? span>

is the universe of Leila closed? Guillaume Coquery leaves the door ajar. "The structure of this novel, I can only do it once. But I would really like some characters to come back. I am thinking in particular of the mysterious John, or Darius. » span> span>

the latter is inspired by a real character, he says. " Darius is a real bad guy that I met in life : a Polish, tattooed, scales. In my book, he is almost nicer than in reality. » span> span>

in parallel, the author is already working on Two new projects . "I have a pure thriller manuscript already written, and a second in progress. But Leila could well come back, differently. » span>

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Guillaume Coquery mania and humor with the scalpel of his words. span> Évy Coquery

during a long path which led him to: Sell houses , cars, Encyclopedias , skis, hold a service station , work in a car racing team, Building reduced planers , planes, Building digital machines , Develop software, Cap its ulterior Amateur , make acoustic guitars and at the same time, draw a bunch of mechanisms and other special machines to earn a living, Guillaume Coquery has always written . Before being published, this eternal dissatisfied that everything passionate started a dozen novels which all found the way to his paper basket (fortunately, he adds with a wink). A few years ago, finally, he participated in Some news competitions and discovered enthusiastic readers ... the long -awaited sign! Four novels later, he has a head full of projects . span>

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