Où que j’aille

Spring 1941. Hitler’s paratroopers descend on the island of Crete. While Greece has surrendered to the Nazis and Hitler is counting on a lightning victory, the Cretans resist. Young Zena, a student in Rethymno, knows she cannot stay in the city. She flees the threat and tries to reach her family in the highlands of the east. Along the way, she chooses not to take up arms but to use her legs to deliver crucial information to the resistance. She runs, she runs through the mountains, defying the enemy whose rage she only fuels, without realizing that she is also on a journey of self-discovery. Wherever she goes, Zena is an arrow cutting through the night. War transforms her life into destiny. Through the magic of his writing, Bruno Doucey—novelist, poet, and poetry editor—takes us on a journey from which we do not emerge unscathed. Où que j'aille is a monumental novel of resistance, a hymn to freedom and life.