Au bout du fleuve #[nn]

Jean-Denis Pendanx's painterly cover sets an immediately compelling tone: three figures in a narrow wooden canoe paddle toward a raging fire consuming the riverbank, their backs turned to us as if pressing forward into danger rather than away from it. Looming large above the scene, an enormous pair of hands clutches a torn document — a quietly powerful image that hints at forces of power and displacement shaping the journey below. Published by Futuropolis in 2017, *Au bout du fleuve* announces itself as a visually ambitious work with a lot on its mind.