Kuzma lives with her mother in the largest city in her country. The new president, nicknamed The Butcher, has decided to divide the population into two groups: Parallelograms and Triangles. The latter are hunted down and gradually disappear. Kuzma must flee alone from the life she has always known. She runs away and creates an imaginary sister, powerful and adventurous: Adna.
Part novel, part picture book, this book recounts war and fascism with humour, extravagance and quirkiness, in a world where reality and imagination merge. A fair and luminous story, told from a child’s perspective, which radiates vitality and hope. Fanny Dreyer’s illustrations add a touch of softness to the story.
Publication : 17 Oct 2025•Age : From 6 years•Size : 16 x 22.5 cm•Volume : 136 pages•Price : 20€•ISBN : 978-2-931296-32-5•Rights sold :
Gwendoline Gauthier was born in Bergerac. After a few years in Paris, where she tried her hand at a wide range of jobs, she moved to Belgium, where she enrolled at ESACT in Liège. Since graduating, she has performed in a number of shows. With Sarah Hebborn and the Une Tribu collective, she wrote, created and performed in Au pied des montagnes. She was nominated for the Maeterlinck Young Hope Award for Les enfants du soleil. She worked with Georges Lini on the creation of Iphigénie à Splott by Gary Owen (nominated best actress and best show at the 2022 Maeterlinck awards).
Sarah Hebborn is an actress and director from Brussels. She trained as an actress at ESACT (Liège), graduating in 2012. During her studies, she met her colleagues from the La Station collective, with whom she created a number of shows. From time to time, she also works as a production assistant or assistant director, and co-creates object and puppet theatre shows, as well as Au pied des montagne, a shadow theatre show. She also runs workshops with teenagers and children.
Fanny Dreyer grew up in Switzerland, not far from the mountains and forests. She studied illustration at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, where she still lives. Her illustrations oscillate between realism and naivety. Her techniques are mixed, ranging from felt-tip pens to pencils, acrylics to inks, and sometimes risographic printing. She offers a multifaceted universe in which landscapes, folklore and children play a singular role. She currently divides her time between children's books, illustrations for the press and the cultural sector, children's workshops, school events and the Cuistax illustrators' collective, of which she is one of the founders. Her recent publications include La colonie de vacances (Albin Michel Jeunesse, 2021) and Collections (with Victoire de Changy, La Partie, 2023).
