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Article: Nimrod. Le Depart. Paris. Acres Sud.(Book review)
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- World Literature Today
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- March 1, 2006
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Nimrod. Le Depart. Paris. Acres Sud. 2005. 102 pages. 12 [euro]. ISBN 2-7427-5315-X
NIMROD is an award-winning Chadian poet who lives in France. In his novel Les Jambes d'Alice (2001), he described the tragedy of the civil war in Chad. In Le Depart, he writes more personally of his own experience. Le Depart is a poetic evocation of growing up in Chad and of being forced to leave home. It begins with peaceful scenes of moving from one village to another, a departure that already presents some problems. Nimrod's father, a Protestant preacher, seemed a hero to the seven-year-old child, but when he and his father encounter hippopotami while traveling to the new ...