THE BLUE NOTEBOOK by James A. LEVINE (2009)

THE BLUE NOTEBOOK by James A. LEVINE - Translated from American by Sylviane Lamoine - Éditions France Loisirs (123 boulevard de Grenelle, Paris) - With the authorization of Buchet/Chastel editions - 2009 - 256 pages - Hardback with dust jacket. Batuk is barely nine years old when her father, a farmer from Madya Pradesh, sells her to a children's brothel on Common Street, in Bombay.Thrown to the perverse desires of the city's notables and pedophile policemen, the little prostitute manages, six years later, to steal a pencil from her boss. And begins to cover the pages of a blue notebook to which she confides the terrible daily life of her sexual slavery. In this intimate, desperate, expiatory diary, Batuk writes every day with her words of sacrificed child. She writes to conjure her destiny, to forget that her father has abandoned his silver-eyed leopard to the violence of those clients who come to her nest to make milk bread. She also writes to rediscover her games in the village with the lizards of her childhood between the rocks heated by the sun. And, in her blue notebook, Batuk ends up inventing fantastic heroes who may, one day, come to free her...