On the one hand, there is the daily life of Paola Ortiz, or Mécanette, single, owner of a mechanical workshop in the Pyrenees, in France, sensitive and delicate under a somewhat rustic exterior. On the other, Myao Kaung, a little orphan “with a slender and fragile body” who will become Finette, once adopted by the Mecanette. Between the two, the presence of swallows threatened by a few naughty locals. With little swallow, published by Kiwi publisher, journalist and author Dominique Zachary offers a tender, sensitive and hopeful story. Between the life of Paola and the missives sent from the orphanage, the short story with ecological contours is finely embroidered, offering both an incursion into the heart of a small hamlet like so many, stuck in a priori, and the reality of a different child, similar to those swallows she loves and seems to understand. The beauty of the story is very much due to this rich parallel between the child, fragile, who gently spreads his wings, and the coveted freedom of these birds. To discover.
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