Le pacte des baleines

Description

It takes the talent, humour and irreverent respectability of the great Maori writer Witi Ihimaera to skilfully blend Polynesian creation myths with a great voyage in traditional canoes and a parade of colourful mammals, both human and marine. We encounter the now senile tattooed whale that only the descendant of the mythical rider can extract from Antarctica... The result of this quest is an adventure novel, an ecological tale, an edifying story, a voyage by the stars that oscillates between the real and the unreal. Witi Ihimaera amuses himself - and us - with his art of tackling major ecological and metaphysical issues with humour and, as he admits, a helping hand from AI (Ancestral Intelligence).

A thrilling sequel to The Tattooed Whale, nearly forty years after the release of the New Zealand classic in English, the novel is also a powerful message of hope.