Le miroir de Cassandre is a book written by Bernard Werber

Bernard Werber

Bernard Werber is a French science fiction writer active since the 1990s.-Novels:His style of writing mixes different literary genres, notably the saga, the science fiction of the inter-war years, and tracts of philosophy.In most of his novels, Bernard Werber uses the same form of construction,...

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The themes of the book are: future-seeing, freedom, exclusion, the future of humanity and autism. The name of the protagonist is a reference to the Cassandra

Cassandra

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy...

 from Homeros «Iliad

Iliad

The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles...

», who receives a gift from the god Apollo: the ability to see into the future.

"Il sera une fois"

(There will be)

Cassandra Katzenberg has the ability to see into the future, but cannot remember anything before the bomb attack in egypt which killed both her parents. After running away from the school of the Hirondelles, she finds refuge in "Redemption", a village improvised by 4 refugees in a dump yard.