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Crossing the Mangrove

English

By (author): Maryse Conde

Translated by: Richard Philcox

'An extraordinary storyteller' Bernardine Evaristo

'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Rivière au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from the mountains...'

Francis Sancher always said he would come to an unnatural end. So when this handsome newcomer to the Guadeloupean village of Rivière au Sel is found dead, face down in the mud, no one is particularly surprised. Loved by some - especially women - and reviled by others, Francis was an enigmatic figure. Where did he come from? What caused his strange nocturnal wanderings? What devils haunted him? As the villagers come to pay their respects, they each reveal another piece of the mystery behind his life and death - and their own buried secrets and stories come to light.

'The grand queen, the empress, of Caribbean literature' Fiammetta Rocco, Guardian

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Product Details
  • Weight: 147g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Sep 2021
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241530054

About Maryse Conde

Maryse Condé was born at Pointe-à-Pitre Guadeloupe in 1937 and spent most of her life in West Africa (Guinea Ghana and Senegal) France and the US where she taught at the University of California Berkeley UCLA and Columbia. The publication of her bestselling third novel Segu (1984) established her pre-eminent position among Caribbean writers. She won Le Grand Prix Littéraire de la Femme in 1986 as well as Le Prix de L'Académie Française in 1988 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015. In 2018 she was awarded the alternative Nobel prize for literature and described as a 'grand storyteller who belongs to world literature'.

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