Chair Piment

by Gisèle Pineau

Elle s'ouvrait. Se cabrait. Se laissait tourner et retourner, pénétrer... En redemandait. Voulait les sentir, durs, en elle... Ils entraient, gratis, tâtaient sa chair, goûtaient sa peau. Fallait qu'elle soit prise. Possédée. Traversée, sans paroles, par des sexes d'hommes. Ç'a la prenait, comme ça, comme une fièvre. À ces moments-là, elle ne gouvernait plus son corps. Elle consommait du sexe, le sexe dressé des hommes. En redemandait. En rêvait parfois. Et se réveillait en sursaut, au milieu de ses nuits, avec l'envie d'un corps d'homme ajusté au sien. Fallait qu'elle soit prise, possédée, traversée... Dans la frénésie sexuelle, Mina Montério tente de se perdre et d'échapper aux fantômes qui la hantent et l'escortent depuis son départ de la Guadeloupe. En particulier celui de sa sueur Rosalia, brûlée vive là-bas dans un incendie. Pour s'en défaire, il faudra que Mina quitte la région parisienne et retourne sur les lieux des drames de son enfance... Où derrière les apparences se cachent souvent des haines nourries par des sortilèges maléfiques.

Genres: France, Roman, Fiction

376 pages, Pocket Book

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Gisèle Pineau is a French novelist, writer and former psychiatric nurse. Although born in Paris, her origins are Guadeloupean and she has written several books on the difficulties and torments of her childhood as a Black person growing up in Parisian society.

During her youth, she divided her time between France and Guadeloupe due to her father's stationing in the military.[2] Pineau struggled with her identity as a Black immigrant due to the racism and xenophobia she experienced at her all-white school in the Kremlin-Bicotre suburb.[2] Pineau took to writing in order to console the difficulties of her French upbringing and Caribbean heritage, as her works would connect the two cultures rather than separating them.[3][4]

In her writings, she uses the oral tradition of storytelling in fictional works to reclaim the narratives of Caribbean culture.[4] She also focuses on racism and the effects it can have on a young girl trying to discover her own cultural identity. Her book L'Exil Selon Julia highlights this, as she relies on the memories and experiences of her aged grandmother to help her learn about her society's traditions and her own cultural background. In the book, she also mentions that the discrimination she felt as a youngster did not only apply to French society in Paris, but also to the people of Guadeloupe, who rejected her for being too cosmopolitan upon her return to the land of her ancestors.

She for many years lived in Paris and, whilst maintaining her writing career, has also returned to being a psychiatric nurse in order to balance out her life; but she recently has moved back to Guadeloupe.

Reviews

[Sarah Brideau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un excellent livre qui vous emporte dans son univers borderline-mystique. J'ai beaucoup aimé.

[Catherine Sanon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extrait: Comment se fustigeait-il,ai-je pu vivre vingt ans auprès d'une créature chiche de caresses qui consentait a me prêter sa chair,bouche fermée et cuisses serrées, tétées raplapla et coucoune sèche? Comment ai-je pu rester aussi longtemps dans cette existence,a quemander l'amour comme un chien sa pitance?

[Marie Nagera · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un plot twist surprenant

[Carine B · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un excellent moment de lecture dans l’univers magico-religieux des Antilles. Une histoire de famille, de générations, de trahison.