Trópico de la violencia

Tropic of violence shows us the wandering in the midst of violence of the illegal minor immigrants on the island of Mayotte, who live alone and cannot be expelled. Nathacha Appanah lived there between 2008 and 2010 and knew firsthand the ways in which these abandoned children were related. Moses is a Comorian boy born with one green and one brown eye. Abandoned by his mother in Mayotte, he is welcomed by Marie, a white French nurse. When he turns fourteen, Marie dies and he ends up on the street, under the orders of a gang leader, Bruce. That is where his nightmare begins, the impossibility of leaving a system without law but with a clear order based on the power of the leader. Other characters in this choral novel are: the policeman Olivier and the NGO volunteer, Stéphane, who are trying to save him. The novel, with a new voice, leads us to know and understand the lives of those we call ore here, of those who have no tools to survive and fall into drugs, theft and violence because they live in an incomprehensible marginality that all we hold.