La mélancolie de l’ours polaire / Melancholy of the Polar Bear – Malo

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Mo Malo

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Editions Paulsen
September 2023

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MELANCHOLY OF THE POLAR BEAR

Rights Holder: Linwood Messina
Original Language: French

Greenland, Melville Bay. 74th parallel, North. 450 inhabitants cut off from the rest of the world by the winter ice. A handful of them hunt polar bears. At first glance, these aren’t the kind of people who would so easily open their doors to outsiders. And yet...Mo Malø, driven by a propulsive desire, lived in the midst of these women and men, completely immersed in their hunt.

He experienced outings that lasted nearly twelve hours in a row, with his sidekicks, “the Good, the Brute and the Crook”, braved the extreme cold — up to -40° C —, attempted to grasp the frozen immensity surrounding him and to tried to put himself in the place of the coveted bear to better find its trail.

But above all, Mo wanted to understand the perpetuation of this ancestral tradition in a world that is changing quickly, where the polar bear symbolizes more than ever climate change and our (bad) ecological conscience. The telling of this arctic hide-and-seek, which can be difficult, demanding and even deadly, is the occasion for all of us to put our fingers on the melancholy of this “eternal nomad”, threatened and dispossessed from its lands, and to remind us how our fates are tied together.

Mo Malø has written several books across various genres under different pseudonyms. His ongoing Qaanaaq crime series set in Greenland has sold well over 100 000 copies.

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