Meanders of Oblivion

Meanders of Oblivion unfolds a romanesque saga where mystery, memory, and human fractures are tied in the same tension. From a powerful opening scene — a stormy night, a shootout at sea, a man fished out half-dead off Almería — Rida Lamrini opens a story where the intimate mingles with the violence of the world, cross-border trafficking, old loyalties, and buried truths. Between Sète, the Rif mountains, Almería, Paris, and other territories crossed by secrets, the novel follows several trajectories that cross around a central enigma: that of a man without a name, without apparent memory, carrying a past on which much more than a lost identity depends.

Carried by a vast, tense, and intensely embodied writing, Meanders of Oblivion is both a novel of suspense, filiation, desire, and tipping points. Through André, Romy, Roger Delmas, Lhaj, Jamal, Samira, and the darker figures of organized crime, Rida Lamrini composes a work where oblivion is never simple erasure, but a combat zone between what seeks to disappear and what insists on coming back to the light.

As the final volume, Meanders of Oblivion has the heavy task of putting all the pieces back together. It reorders and gives meaning to the events of the first two volumes.

It is the novel of retrospective explanation. Thus, the reader who followed the original intimate drama (Volume 1) then the labyrinthine quest (Volume 2) discovers here, often to their great surprise, the true common threads of the story, woven long ago.