Les mots etrangers Author:Vassilis Alexakis This book is an invitation au voyage - from Paris where the narrator lives, to Greece where he grew up, and where his father has just died, to the Central African Republic as he undertakes the study of Sango. This book is the portrait of a man struggling to come to terms with the death of his father and the fact that he is now "only him one." Th... more »e work is a profound meditation on language and loss, on the language of loss, and also on the power and magic of words - their power to change the way we see ourselves, their magic to renew our lives after hardship and loss. (This book is in French)« less