Le SOURIRE FENDU ou l'histoire de Gibbon

There are meetings you can not escape … Faces ; looks which mark you. They change your vision of the world, for ever. Chanee is gobbled up by his fight for gibbons. Born in the South of France, left to 18 years; he fights for almost 15 years in Indonesia. He tries to protect islands of forest there, while saving animals, victims of the poachers and the deforestation.
In a world of legends, animistic faiths, he tells his adventures. The set :: the jungle and the villages along the rivers of Borneo.
He describes incredible scenes : the rape of an orangutan, deafening of violence; moving, failed or successful rescues; the intimacy and the comic of a circumcision, inescapable to become Indonesian... In front of a villager who hated him, or a small anorexic chap, he understands that his fight does not stop in animals.
When his fate places him on the road of a child slave, with the mutilated face, he doesn't ignore it. It cannot be a coincidence; the signs are there.
He dashes into a new mission: help him …

Publishing : Editions Strapontins {}
Released in March 29th, 2013