Zimbabwe was their land, their domain, their paradise... Until the day the "democratically elected President for life" decided to expropriate these white farmers who believed themselves to be the kings of the world, reducing them to struggle or exile. Blues is eighteen years old. Her golden hair and fierce character inflame all desires. Daughter of a large landowner, sure of her superiority and her education, she has lived on a cloud of privilege, loved, pampered, courted. But beneath her white skin beats the heart of a woman born of this African land that she loves so much, and for which she is ready to fight and die...
For the first time, a great Black writer puts himself in the shoes of the Whites, the colonizers. With this tumultuous and passionate fresco, Calixthe Beyala has created a true African Gone with the Wind, populated by violent and chimerical beings, cunning and naive, Blacks and Whites struggling to invent a new life together.