Le phare d'un monde flottant (Domaine etranger), Paperback Book, By: Payne, David

Young anthropologist, Joe Madden decides to study the inhabitants of a small isolated village on the coast of North Carolina. Hired on a trawler, he gradually gets involved in the rough life and traditional fishermen, with the concern to maintain its scientific neutrality whatever happens. Over the course of meetings and events, Joe will gradually understand that he will not always be able to refuse to act ... In this dense and moving novel, David Payne finds the hero of the Lost World of Joey Madden, a man on the threshold of adulthood and who will have to finally face his past and the reality of the world in order to cross it. admit that The Lighthouse of a Floating World is one of our ten favorite novels in the world.