Synopses & Reviews
This is a novel of education: social, political, radical, andmedical. The protagonist is collective, a group of medical students from FrenchGuiana at the University of Montpellier, France, who learn what separates them asCaribbean people from their French and Africancounterparts.
Juminer characterizes the threeprincipal types of men drawn together in the stuggle for emancipation: those whosooner or later will opt for violence; those who, by their sterling example, preferto work patiently in the socioprofessional arena, in order to instill a certainmoral and civic sense in their countrymen; and finally, those who wear theirbourgeois legacy like a curse and will be ready to try anything, includingterrorism, to prove that they are not enemies of the people.