THESE BLAZING SUNS

A resonant coming of age novel and a story of intergenerational struggle and societal change Iro left his village to continue his studies in Abidjan With his friends Thierry Malick and Yeo they form a happy resourceful group doing odd jobs around the neighbourhood Of all of them Iro is the most determined and ambitious But when his father dies everything is turned upside down as he realises how little he knew about his life his dreams and his losses Iro s certainties collapse and new more complex truths emerge that will allow Iro and his friends to chart their path and find reconciliation and peace for themselves and their families A novel that questions the heritage of fathers the ambition of sons the divide between the villages and their laws and the freedoms and loneliness of the cities Falle s debut is the story of a young man who rises emancipates himself and finds his truth