Three Dreams on Mount Meru

by François Devenne

Bayu, the young African Muslim, becomes impatient to achieve what generations of his ancestors, a clan of sculptors and artists, have done before they To make the journey which all men of the clan must make, and to dream three dreams on Mount Meru. From a village near Mombasa, in Kenya, he must cross the forests to Mount Meru, in Tanzania, a huge distance across hostile terrain, made harder by his inexperience and innocence.
Step by step, the young sculptor throws himself into the adventure, which illuminates a wild universe - the strange beauty of the trees, the ever-present animals who alternately threaten and protect him on this increasingly magical but always dangerous voyage. And throughout, the eyes of the leopard - a figure which Bayu's ancestor held captivated and captive - protect him.

208 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2007