CHAPTER 16Six months had elapsed since the arrival of the family in Venado Tuerto; Khaliyha and Charfadine had already acquired a certain rudimentary handling of the language were managing their house. Hubert had completed his first year and was in the permanent company of his cousins which predicted a happy childhood. Cristian collaborated with rural chores in the family farm, which meant making long and intense workdays, interrupted by frequent rains, sometimes torrential which appropriately fecundated the so-called pampa húmeda, part of the best agricultural land in the country and the planet.
Khaliyha was in intermittent contact with Chad, and had spoken to Souady the day prior to her departure from Paris for N'Djamena, where she could at last get together with her husband. After the
