Reading group “Le rêve du pêcheur” by Hemley Boum

Once a month, the reading group meets up to discuss a couple of books selected in advance (from classical to contemporary French literature) and discovers other members’ views on them. Meetings take place at the Institut français d’Écosse, usually on the last Tuesday of the month.

About the book :

Zack fled Douala at eighteen, abandoning his mother, Dorothée, to her fate and her secrets. Now a clinical psychologist in Paris, married and a father, Zack suddenly finds his past resurfacing.
A few decades earlier, his grandfather Zacharias, a fisherman in a small Cameroonian coastal village, wanted to offer his family a better future. To achieve his dream, he renounced his traditional way of life and took a perilous gamble…