La Marche de l'incertitude

A retired colonel finds a baby on his doorstep. A young woman in love is forced into exile because of a magic egg. A teenager is passionate about both science and literature, and a cat from Sidi Bou Saïd steals carpets. Between Tunisia and France, between superstition and the rational world of science, chance keeps separating people and reuniting them by the most unlikely means: eleven years after the egg drove two of them apart, it chooses mathematics to bring them back together, and a deaf labourer helps a mother find the child she thought lost forever. Told with joyful humour, the novel mixes science and folklore, dream and reality, North and South.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

141 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Tunisia, France

First published

2008 by Elzévir

Author's age

28 when first published

ISBN

9782811400132 (original)