Used Book – Noire précieuse, Asya Djoulaït

"Trembling, Céleste gathered what little courage she had left to observe her mother's hands as they pulled up the blanket, as one adjusts a lie, as one closes a coffin. They finished pulling Céleste out of childhood. They were like a wood fire, furrowed by lava, stained with flames, gray, shame." "Noire précieuse" is the story of a mother trying to save herself by flaying her own flesh. "Noire précieuse" is the story of a tender relationship between a young girl and her mother, the story of the modes of communication that circulate in the streets of Paris, between Château-d'Eau and Boulevard Saint-Germain. Nouchi language meets "white French," which also penetrates Ivorian slang. "Noire précieuse" is the story of a sensual relationship like a caress, violent like an identity imposed from outside and which "stirs the blood."