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The Tragedy
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Leo Honore Riviere Kanonga
Published: Jan 5 2025
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Suspended between the indifferent gaze of the heavens and the mute earth beneath, François, by his own hand, by the rope he himself had so meticulously knotted, met his end. Hanged in the desolate confines of his backyard, a few bleak hours before the dawn's cold light. He abandoned them, his wife, his children, yes, but what weighed more heavily, what lingered like a festering wound, was not his absence, but rather the petty, the banal story of hatred-a story that, like some insidious disease, would continue to metastasize, to corrode the very souls of those left behind to bear its weight.
It was Angélique's voice-oh, that voice, a flat, toneless instrument of fate-that delivered the news, a brief, furtive summons from the abyss, a mere handful of seconds to pronounce this utterly absurd, this cruelly meaningless judgment.
A love triangle, twisted and perverse; friendships, mere charades, hollow and reeking of hypocrisy; fleeting, feverish embraces; the stain of prostitution; the ultimate despair of suicide-it is here, in the very heart of Kinshasa, that monstrous maw, that city which, it is said, devours its own children with a ravenous hunger, that the interwoven threads of these wretched destinies are unraveled.
And he who now takes up the pen-he too, a captive of his own inner demons, tormented by the ceaseless struggle of opposing forces that tear at his very being-he strives, with trembling hand, to find some semblance of equilibrium in this chaos. It is with letters of blood, one might say, with the very essence of suffering distilled into ink, that he will attempt to chronicle the fate of those who have vanished, those who have irrevocably crossed the threshold into the realm of the forever lost.
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