Among the twelve novels that Tierno Monénembo has published up to the present day, six actually share a similar narrative pattern : the enunciation takes the form of a speech addressed to a present or absent interlocutor. That enunciative choice, which could be dubbed « the addressed narrative », is close to the « speaking novel » studied and theorized by Jérôme Meizoz ; yet it does not only build bridges between narrators and narratees, it also establish significant links between Monénembo’s various novels and their respective characters. The author’s works can thus be read as an uninterrupted dialogue between the living and the dead, or between the continents of Africa, Europe and the Americas. The following paper studies the « narrative kinships » that bind together six of Monénembo’s novels, and it focuses on the ways these various narratives deal most specifically with the issue of filiation.