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SUMMARY:🎉Book launch: D' Après Bertha by Pierre Durand
DESCRIPTION:🗓 Date: Monday\, 23 March 2026\n🕕 Time: 6 PM\n📍 Loca
 tion: Alliance Française du Cap - 155 Loop street\nJoin Pauline Liétar 
 (author of Paillettes) in discussion with Pierre Durand on the French tran
 slation (D'après Bertha) of his highly successful debut fiction Bertha’
 s Law.\nEnglish and French books will be on sale.\nFor more about the auth
 or see authorpierredurand.com\n“wonderfully intriguing\, humorous and po
 ignant…and the dialogue positively sings”\nAndrew Salomon\, winner of 
 the PEN Literary Award\nWhat if you lived by only one law? Based on oral a
 nd written accounts\, follow Bertha’s mysterious life as she criss-cross
 es Africa hatching plans to free the animals she encounters. Along the way
  she forges profound friendships with Tanzanian children Bakari and Amida\
 , her Nigerian rescuer Ifeoluwa\, and traveling salesman Alphonse. But the
 re is danger in almost every situation and Bertha must reckon with a bizar
 re array of menacing characters: animal traders in Kenya\, a gangster Jero
 me (aka Spares) in South Africa and the circus performer Mathieu in the DR
 C. Hilarious and tragic\, this is the story of her uncompromising belief i
 n animal liberty. No matter the cost.\nWe look forward to seeing you there
 !\n📧 More info: info@afcapetown.co.za\n🍸 Cashless bar hosted by 
 Alliance  du  Française du Cap
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