Description
If you could relive a single moment of your life—just one—to change the course of your life, do you know which moment you would choose?
This is the true story of a son who sets out on a whim to find his father. Except that his father died 15 years ago, and he never lived with him. In the son’s hands, there are three maps left: a map of the Congo, Antarctica, and Libya. Three countries where his father lived and worked. Notebook in hand, the son hits the road… In *Fils de bâtard*, Emmanuel De Candido clings to the fire that burns in his gut, traversing three continents and nearly a century of history. Between Congolese songs of independence and his mother’s botched euthanasia, between the crackle of Libyan gunfire and the birth of his son, between the katabatic winds and the labored breath that keeps him standing, he weaves a dazzling and intimate epic that deconstructs the notions of parentage, heritage, and masculinity.
Maeterlinck Critics’ Prize (Belgium) – Special Mention 2024.
