The new feather, Frieda Léo signs her first novel

She’s Mado. For ten years, the writer she has been living with a man she considers her « pharaoh » and yet, he does not know her. She wants children, he doesn’t. His attempts are in vain. Her belly refuses to give life. And for good reason, she is infertile. Hormonal treatments will get the better of her, however. She finally finds herself pregnant. But the irony is that her husband decides to leave without knowing the news. It had to be that way.

This pregnancy will then awaken in Mado a work of introspection. While during all these years the emptiness of not being able to give birth made her suffer from blank page syndrome, Majdouline found inspiration again. This life that takes place within her prompts her to express herself. It is on the genesis of humanity that she does it, helped by a single will: that of rehabilitating the name of a woman forgotten by all while she created the legend and should have been part of the memory collective. This woman is Hajar, the mother of a multitude of nations.

Three thousand years ago, in ancient Egypt, she was Pharaoh’s sex slave. At the age of thirteen, he donated it as a servant to Abraham so that she would rent her womb and her youth to Sarah, his barren wife, in order to satisfy her desire to be a mother and enable her to ensure their descendants. Thus will be born Ishmael.

Hajar would therefore be at the origin of the world. In fact, it was Eve. And even more. She is the very first surrogate mother. She « gave life for the pleasure of another. « Through her role as » procreative agent « she made history! It just goes to show that surrogacy, legal in the USA, but prohibited in France, is not new! It was time for justice to be done to this genitrix and for « the apostles of morality » to make amends.

By dedicating his words to Hajar, whose body has certainly been bargained for, Mado will release his own ills. In telling who Hajar was, it is after her mirror, her double, her flesh that she sets out in search. Mado, the Hajar of modern times, makes her a character worthy of her, a heroine so that she is not abandoned a second time and her name is never forgotten. With the wire of its pen, their first names come to be confused and their identity to transpose. Mado and Hajar. In the name of life, the legend of one makes the history of the other.

« In the beginning was the belly » by Frieda Léo published by Librinova, a mythical journey against a backdrop of educational history that reflects all in subliminal, a very contemporary reality: that of procreation and surrogacy. A first Roman like a birth, which encourages reflection. Quite simply, an ode to life.

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