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Ony Ratsifandrihamanana

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Ony Ratsifandrihamana lives in Antananarivo, Madagascar. She has an MPhil in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Oslo and works for a human rights organization. She has previously published a short story written in French, entitled “Cher Peter”, which won winner the Young French Language Writer Prize and the Young Reader Prize of the Lycée Pierre d’Aragon, and was published by Buchet-Chastel in 2013. In her spare time, she paints, reads and practices yoga and pole dancing.

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The year is 1972.

For one island-country off the Indian Ocean, it is a time of social and political upheaval. Beyond the tourists in search of baobabs and lemurs, past the frangipani blossoms and ripened fig trees, are rumblings of a new beginning.

At its center are two powerful families: the Ralehas, with their national railway empire, and the politically ambitious Ramiadanas, whose histories suddenly collide when both wives unexpectedly go into labour at the same dinner party.

Kuno Raleha is born on October 3^rd, at six o’clock, eighteen minutes and forty-six seconds in the evening.

Lila Ramiadana is also born on October 3^rd, at six o’clock, eighteen minutes and forty-six seconds in the evening.

For both families, the signs are clear: the children are born for each other. Their union will be blessed, their legacies intertwined. Together, they will restore their nation’s stolen future.

But for Lila and Kuno, fate is a burden. Headstrong Lila pleads and bargains to escape a marriage she never wanted. Gentle, clairvoyant Kuno resigns himself quietly to the life laid out for him. They trudge forward reluctantly as fate weaves their lives together, tethering at every turn on the edge of one question:

What if they refuse their destiny?

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