C'était ça ou mourir

The first novel by Thélyson Orélien is already the literary phenomenon of the year 2026. In the course of translation into more than twenty languages, C-was that or died conquered Quebec and soon the whole world, telling the story of Jonas Dorléon's Odyssey.After the burning of his neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Jonas takes almost nothing with him when he leaves Haiti: a diploma, a notebook of poems, his mother's photo. A whole life in a plastic bag. First taking refuge in the Dominican Republic, then in Brazil and Mexico, this professor d-history crosses borders sometimes on board a superheated bus, sometimes by facing the depths of the jungle. At each stage of the faces arise, bodies fall, solidaritys are born and then break. In the hope of reaching Canada and the few family left, Jonas finds himself at the gates of the United States, alone facing the agents of the ICE and an administration ready to do anything to carry out his hunt for migrants.A