Berlick (excerpt)
Author’s description: “Berlick is a journey into the life of the French writer Alexandre Dumas when he was a kid. As an adult, he wrote classic novels like The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Common for all of his books is that he used stories from his fathers’ life. His father General Dumas was basically a real superhero. He was a former Haitian slave that climbed the ladder in the French army and ended up leading giant armies, always with a strong moral compass. When Napoleon changed the race laws and made slavery legal again, the French society that used to have freedom, equality and brotherhood as ideals, and therefore held former slaves high, turned around and became hostile towards colored people. General Dumas was forgotten and denied his pension. For Alexandre Dumas, the worst thing you can do is forget someone. So he makes his life a quest to avenge his father.”
