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La contrée obscure

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Le 3 juin 1539, le conquistador Hernando de Soto enfonce son épée dans le sol de La Florida et s’en proclame le gouverneur officiel. Après avoir bravé la fougue de la mer et la rage de ses ennemis, le voilà enfin face à son destin. À lui les richesses, à lui la gloire. Aveuglé par l’ambition, obsédé par l’or, de Soto déferle avec ses conquistadors. Mais ces nouvelles contrées se révèlent hostiles, peuplées de Cherokees qui se battent farouchement. Face à l’avidité des Espagnols, leur résistance se nourrit de mythes. Comme celui de l’Enfant Sauvage qui renaît chaque jour, et avec lui, la soif salvatrice de sang.

Explorant l’héritage de ses ancêtres cherokees, David Vann signe une œuvre virtuose sur le choc sanglant des cultures, mêlant avec intensité l’intime à l’universel.

David Vann a reçu le Prix Médicis étranger 2010 pour Sukkwan Island.

493 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 5, 2025

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David Vann

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Published in 19 languages, David Vann’s internationally-bestselling books have won 15 prizes, including best foreign novel in France and Spain and, most recently, the $50,000 St. Francis College Literary Prize 2013, and appeared on 70 Best Books of the Year lists in a dozen countries. He has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, The Financial Times, Elle UK, Esquire UK, Esquire Russia, National Geographic Adventure, Writer’s Digest, McSweeney’s, and other magazines and newspapers. A former Guggenheim fellow, National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Wallace Stegner fellow, and John L’Heureux fellow, he is currently a Professor at the University of Warwick in England and Honorary Professor at the University of Franche-Comté in France.

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