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When Tass was a child, adults told her the story of her land many times and in different versions. Despite all these stories, Tass never really knew where the story of her people began. Just as she never managed to explain New Caledonia to Thomas, her partner who remained in mainland France. Today, she has returned to Nouméa and resumed her teaching position. In one of her classes, there are Kanak twins whom she is irritated to find intriguing, with their curious tattoos: are they linked to an elusive independence movement? When they disappear, Tass sets out to find them, from Nouméa to Bourail—without suspecting that along the way, the story of her ancestors will be, prodigiously, revealed to her. Tass's destiny intersects with that of the Caledonian archipelago and Alice Zeniter, with remarkable novelistic virtuosity, portrays its fascinating contemporary face, in the shadow of which, in a western style, its penal and colonial past looms
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