★German translation rights sold.
★OPERA rights SOLD! Premiere scheduled for 2026.
★10000 copies sold in Spain.
★This heartbreaking work is about the myth of Medea, violence, compassion, understanding the other, and not only that.

This is undoubtedly the most disturbing book Chantal Maillard has ever written. In it she confronts the great issues humanity has been pondering since the beginning of time. Birth, pain and death, the gods and their absence, the relation of our species with other living beings, motherhood and suicide, guilt and innocence, judgment and creed. All of this revolves around the axis of a primordial violence that we all suffer at the same time as we inflict it. How can we commiserate, considering the crime and how can we not commiserate, considering the hunger?» Eastern traditions and the classic Greek world are once again present in this writing that seems, however, to always emerge from the body, from the experience lived in search of an impossible freedom and from a clairvoyance that awakens fear for what it may come to understand: “In all tyrannies, intelligence is the forbidden fruit,” affirms Chantal. And also “How easily fear is translated into convenience”. Courage and intelligence are necessary to enter this book, of which no page will leave you indifferent.