What better way to start the year than by meeting Corinne Morel Darleux to celebrate the publication of her latest novel, "Chimères tropicales".
Stories are often born in the forest. In the tropics, it's a territory both familiar and strange, where the senses are deceived at every step, where illusion and reality merge.
For Ariane, who has never left the French mountains of her childhood, the jungle is one of those fantasized places about which she has read and seen it all. So when two planes crash in the middle of the rainforest, blurring the line between fiction and reality, the novel can begin.
In this spellbinding book, Corinne Morel Darleux takes us into a maze of limbo and vines, where the unaccomplished dead, a film director, shamans and nurses, a jaguar man, sailboats and an opera meet.
She speaks to us of the power of imagination, of its character as subversive as it is life-saving, and explores the moments in our lives when illusion invades our minds.
For Ariane, who has never left the French mountains of her childhood, the jungle is one of those fantasized places about which she has read and seen it all. So when two planes crash in the middle of the rainforest, blurring the line between fiction and reality, the novel can begin.
In this spellbinding book, Corinne Morel Darleux takes us into a maze of limbo and vines, where the unaccomplished dead, a film director, shamans and nurses, a jaguar man, sailboats and an opera meet.
She speaks to us of the power of imagination, of its character as subversive as it is life-saving, and explores the moments in our lives when illusion invades our minds.
