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La Horde du Contrevent
La Horde du Contrevent | Alain Damasio
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« Imaginez une Terre poncée, avec en son centre une bande de cinq mille kilomètres de large et sur ses franges un miroir de glace à peine rayable, inhabité. Imaginez qu’un vent féroce en rince la surface. Que les villages qui s’y sont accrochés, avec leurs maisons en goutte d’eau, les chars à voile qui la strient, les airpailleurs debout en plein flot, tous résistent. Imaginez qu’en Extrême-Aval ait été formé un bloc d’élite d’une vingtaine d’enfants aptes à remonter au cran, rafale en gueule, leur vie durant, le vent jusqu’à sa source, à ce jour jamais atteinte : l’Extrême-Amont. Mon nom est Sov Strochnis, scribe. Mon nom est Caracole le troubadour et Oroshi Melicerte, aéromaître. Je m’appelle aussi Golgoth, traceur de la Horde, Arval l’éclaireur et parfois même Larco lorsque je braconne l’azur à la cage volante. Ensemble, nous formons la Horde du Contrevent. Il en a existé trente-trois en huit siècles, toutes infructueuses. Je vous parle au nom de la trente-quatrième : sans doute l’ultime. »
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Ast_Arslan
La Horde du Contrevent | Alain Damasio
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I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it. Some will be old, some will be new - don't judge me, I have a lot of books.

Day 90th

Join the fun if you want!

#tbrpile

JazzFeathers Una mia amica l'ha letto e dice che è una cosa stranissima. Io me lo sono comprato, ma non l'ho ancora letto. 3y
Ast_Arslan @JazzFeathers eh, io come te 😂 è in libreria da una vita ma devo ancora leggerlo 3y
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JazzFeathers
La Horde du Contrevent | Alain Damasio
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#7days7covers Day 3

Not sure this is available in English. Damasio is a French author. This book was recommended to me by a friend who's told me it's one of the strangest stories she has ever read.
I haven't read it yet.

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catsuit_mango
La Horde du Contrevent | Alain Damasio
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Epub and audiobook, my Friday reads #vendredilecture

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catsuit_mango
La Horde du Contrevent | Alain Damasio
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When you start a book and the list of characters is too long, and a friend told you that each paragraph starts with a glyph to indicate the narrator... You make a list!
#bookandtea #chunkster

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LucindaGrande
La Horde du Contrevent | Alain Damasio
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My best experience in Sci-fi books

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JazzFeathers
La Horde du Contrevent | Alain Damasio
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#SizzlinSummerBooks #Roadtrip

I haven't read this book yet, it's a bit intimidating, but it sounds so different.
It was recommanded ti me by a friend who red it.
It's basically a quest fantasy, but written in a very peculiar way, from many different POV which the reader needs to sort out himself through voice an d simbols.
The quest team faces a world where a horrible wind raigns to retrive the means to saved their people. Nobody succede before

julesG Sounds interesting. Now I have to find out whether there is a translation available. I'm sure I'd struggle with the French. 7y
JazzFeathers @julesG Did you find it? I have no idea whether it has been translated into English 7y
julesG No translation available as of yet. But I can check again in a few months. 😉 7y
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