La Niña Estrellita, queen of the Sensation Bar, sublime heroine of In the space of a blink , has turned his back, without a hip roll, on his first life, on his devouring love for El Caucho. Here she is again, Églantine, in a fortnightly boarding house, in search of redemption. Célie, a resident of the place, has character and great prospects: it is in salt that one must invest. The two partners in fortune charter a sailboat, the First God , to join the Great Saltworks. But it's a storm. A storm of all the devils and all the voodoo gods...

A convulsive novel, shaken by the apocalypse, The Absinthe Star burns with a welter of images where the elements, the senses, everything is exacerbated. Here it is as it has reached us by miracle, unfinished: its author had work to do elsewhere, from which he did not return alive. You must read Jacques Stephen Alexis.