Passage des larmes
Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès (septembre 2009)
Djibril a quitté Djibouti depuis de longues années. A Montréal, il est devenu un homme neuf : le pays de son enfance n’est plus pour lui qu’une terre étrangère, poussiéreuse, un terrain vague. Employé par une agence de renseignement, il doit pourtant y retourner pour une mission de quelques jours. Djibouti est devenu un enjeu (...)
Abdourahman A. Waberi est né le 20 juillet 1965 
Waiting at the Paris airport, two immigrants from Djibouti reveal parallel stories of war, child soldiers, arms trafficking, drugs, and hunger. Bashir is recently discharged from the army and wounded, finding himself inside the French Embassy. Harbi, whose wife, Alice, has been killed by the police, is there too—arrested earlier as a political suspect. An embassy official mistakes Bashir for Harbi's son, and as Harbi does not deny it, both will be exiled to France, Alice's home country. This brilliantly shrewd and cynical universal chronicle of war and exile, translated into English for the first time, amounts to a lyrical and reflective history of Djibouti and its tortuous politics, crippled economy, and devastated moral landscape.