" Les échoués "
Novel
- Nominated for : The Discovery Grant 2016
« 1992. Lampedusa is still another small quiet island and no wall of barbed wires runs along the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Virgil, the Moldovan, Chanchal, the Bangladeshi, and Assan, the Somalian, are pioneers. Soon, millions of desperate persons will take attack the roads which they are opening.
Arrived in France, living but put into debt and without papers, three illegal immigrants are going to share everything, the slumlords and the slave traders, dramas and small happiness.»
- presentation of the editor
« There are novels with publication resounds terrifically with actuality, feeling that the text was written under the fire of events. Les échoués, first fiction of Pascal Manoukian, could be the book dedicated to these refugees who are seen every day on our screens. […] except that Les échoués the story is not what takes place today. This novel takes place twenty-three years ago! It amazing - extraordinary power of literature - is that it would not be necessary to change a word to include what takes place under our eyes? Everything is said with an extreme precision and correctness. By what force? Pascal Manoukian gives names to these persons, and it changes everything.»
- Mohammed Aïssaoui, Le Figaro Littéraire, September 10th, 2015