Title : Why do you dance when you walk? - Abdourahman A. Waberi - Book
Summary :
One morning, on the way to nursery school in Paris, a little girl asks her father: "Tell me, Dad, why do you dance when you walk?" The question is innocent and serious. Why does her father limp, why doesn't he ride a bike, a scooter...? The father can't avoid it. He must tell what happened to his leg, reawaken the memories, return to Djibouti, to the Château d'eau district, to the land of his childhood. In this country of light and dust, where illness, first fevers and then this leg that wouldn't hold up any longer, made him different, unique. He was the "skinny one" and the "runt" but also the best student in school, the favorite of Madame Annick, his teacher from France, an insatiable reader, the king of essays.
Abdourahman Waberi remembers the shifting desert of Djibouti, the Red Sea, Siesta beach, the aluminum sheet houses of his neighborhood, his immense solitude and the figures who marked him forever: Papa-la-Tige who sold trinkets to tourists, his mother Zahra, trembling, hard, silent, his grandmother nicknamed Cochise in homage to the Indian chief because she ruled the family, the good Ladane, with whom he was secretly in love. He recounts the drama, the moment that turned everything upside down, the fight he engaged in afterwards and which made him a man who knows the price of poetry, of silence, of freedom, a man who always dances.
" Why Do You Dance When You Walk? " offers a lesson: how not to be subjected to the walk of others and how to choose to dance on the thread of one's own life.
Young Africa – Anne Bocandé
"Waberi exorcises at once many years of "ancient fear" linked to the gaze of others."
Humanity – Muriel Steinmetz
“The moving confession of a father who explains his disability to his daughter”
Le Figaro - Mohammed Aïssaoui
“This beautiful dance lesson between a father and his daughter shows that literature is also an art of transmission.”
Le Figaro - Mohammed Aïssaoui
- EAN: 9782709665568
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