{"id":37475,"date":"2025-11-25T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/2048-a-dry-barren-tropical-island\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:00:44","slug":"2048-a-dry-barren-tropical-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/2048-a-dry-barren-tropical-island\/","title":{"rendered":"2048: a dry, barren tropical island&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>In <\/b><b><i>The Arab Well<\/i><\/b><b>Didier Lentrein recounts the desolation of a post-apocalyptic society, dry and barren, where the survival of living beings depends on the parsimonious daily distribution of water. This story <\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>,<\/b><\/span><b> located in 2048 in Saint-Philippe de <\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>La <\/b><\/span><b>R\u00e9union, won the <\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>p<\/b><\/span><b>rix Indianoc\u00e9anie 2025. <\/b><em>Dominique Bellier<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Winner of the <span class=\"s1\">Prix<\/span>Indianoc\u00e9anie 2025, this novel can be read in one go, thanks to <span class=\"s1\">its <\/span>simple, precise style<span class=\"s1\"> and<\/span> its engaging narrator, just like the characters he loves. But it plunges us into an unrecognizable Reunion Island, in 2048, just 23 years from now&#8230; The author revisits a thousand details of our daily lives and reconstructs the landscape in the light of the climate catastrophe. He describes living conditions so realistically that we feel the discomfort of his dirty, ragged protagonists.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Every morning, the old man and narrator, Cosinus, walks to the stadium and lines up to get his water ration <span class=\"s1\">:<\/span> 1.5 <span class=\"s1\">liters<\/span>. It&#8217;s the condition of survival. His friend Eddy, a kind-hearted homeless man who feeds dogs, hasn&#8217;t washed for a long time. As his spirit regularly leaves him, Cosinus takes him to the stadium every day to watch over him, so that he doesn&#8217;t forget on the way what he came here to do.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">From climatic fresco, we move on to the thriller of the day when Eddy doesn&#8217;t show up&#8230; Latent until now, the most sordid violence becomes tangible; the crisis and absurdity of a purposeless existence exacerbate it. Yet Cosinus keeps the flame of hope alive through the books he trades in for a few proteins with a certain Beyonc\u00e9, <span class=\"s1\">and<\/span> through the solidarity, humanism and thirst for justice of some. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Arab WellDidier Lentrein recounts the desolation of a post-apocalyptic society, dry and barren, where the survival of living beings depends on the parsimonious daily distribution of water. This story , located in 2048 in Saint-Philippe de La R\u00e9union, won the prix Indianoc\u00e9anie 2025. Dominique Bellier Winner of the PrixIndianoc\u00e9anie 2025, this novel can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":37463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1776],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture-en"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}