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Sie wird als jüngstes von acht Kindern auf der französischen Karibikinsel Guadeloupe geboren und 2018 mit dem Alternativen Literaturnobelpreis ausgezeichnet: Maryse Condé, die »Weltbürgerin und Grande Dame der frankophonen Literatur« (BR 2). In ihrer Autobiographie lässt sie ihre frühen Lebensjahre wiederaufleben. Die Zeit als junge Studentin in Paris, als Mutter von vier Kindern, als Lehrerin in Westafrika zu einer Zeit, als der Kontinent von...

Possessing one of the most vital voices in international letters, Maryse Condé added to an already acclaimed career the New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018. The twelfth novel by this celebrated author revolves around an enigmatic crime and the young man at its center. Dieudonné Sabrina, a gardener, aged twenty-two and black, is accused of murdering his employer--and lover--Loraine, a wealthy white woman descended from plantation owners. Hi...

A pair of twins who had at one time been inseparable leave Guadeloupe for Mali and then later in life move to Paris, eventually growing apart, with one twin coming to walk a beat and the other twin set for a path of radicalisation. Translated by Richard Philcox.

Possessing one of the most vital voices in international letters, Maryse Condé added to an already acclaimed career the New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018. The twelfth novel by this celebrated author revolves around an enigmatic crime and the young man at its center. Dieudonné Sabrina, a gardener, aged twenty-two and black, is accused of murdering his employer--and lover--Loraine, a wealthy white woman descended from plantation owners. Hi...

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Born in Guadeloupe, Ivan and Ivana are twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings for one another. When their mother sends them off to live with their father in Mali they begin to grow apart, until, as young adults in Paris, Ivana's youthful altruism compels her to join the police academy, while Ivan, stunted by early experiences of rejection and exploitation, walks the path of radicalization. The twins, unable to live ei...

Translation of: Mets et merveilles"--Copyright page.

La conclusione della grandiosa saga del regno bambara di Segù, avviata nel volume "Le muraglie di terra". All'interno della vicenda africana si muove un mondo di personaggi che incarnano il destino della diaspora dei neri dall'Africa alla Giamaica, al Brasile e poi di nuovo all'Africa. Filo conduttore è la rovina, nel XIX secolo, della nobile famiglia bambara dei Traoré e il contemporaneo processo di disintegrazione di uno Stato, una cultura e...

In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Condé vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering her parents' feelings of alienation, her first crush, a falling out with her best friend, the death of her beloved grandmother, her first encounter with racism.

Quella dei Louis della Guadalupa è la storia avventurosa della nascita di una borghesia nera cosmopolita, un'epopea in cui si succedono donne e uomini orgogliosi o disperati, fantasmi che gridano vendetta, sogni di emancipazione, rabbia e violenza. Fondatore della dinastia è il bisnonno Albert, detto Boccaccia d'Inferno, che all'inizio del '900 fugge dalle piantagioni di canna da zucchero della sua isola nei Caraibi per cercare fortuna nei can...

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Veronica Mercier, a sophisticated Caribbean woman teaching and living in Paris, goes to a West African country to complete her search for self-identity. There, she finds herself involved with a "nigger with ancestors" - a cold, calculating minister for the interior and heir to the presidency.

Babakar est médecin. Il vit seul avec ses souvenirs d’une enfance africaine, d’une mère aux yeux bleus qui vient le visiter en songe, d’un ancien amour, Azelia, disparue elle aussi, et autres rêves de jeunesse d’avant son exil en Guadeloupe, berceau de sa famille. Mais le hasard ou la providence place une enfant sur sa route et l’oblige à renoncer à sa solitude, à ses fantômes. La petite Anaïs n’a que lui. Sa mère, une réfugiée haïtienne, est...

For nearly four decades, the author, best known for her novels "Segu" and "Windward Heights", has been at the forefront of French Caribbean literature. In this collection of essays and lectures, written over many years and in response to the challenges posed by a changing world, she reflects on the ideas and histories that have moved her.

From the winner of the New Academy Prize in Literature (the alternative to the Nobel Prize) and critically acclaimed author of the classic historical novel Segu, Maryse Condé has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel.Maryse Condé's personal journey of discovery and revelation becomes ours as we learn of Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza grandmother who worked as a cook for the Walbergs, a ...

Im Jahr 1861 nimmt die muslimische Armee von El-Hadj Omar die Stadt Segu ein. Die Bewohner müssen nun dem »einzigen wahren Gott« huldigen, die animistischen Traditionen werden unterdrückt. Zur gleichen Zeit dringt von Westen die Kolonialmacht Frankreich mit einem Söldnerheer immer weiter ins Innere Afrikas vor, die Christianisierung beginnt. Wie schon ihre Väter werden die Traorés Opfer der Wirren und der Machtkämpfe ihrer Zeit, geraten sie un...

Blüte und Untergang der mächtigen Stadt Segu am Niger sind eng verknüpft mit dem Schicksal Dusika Traorés, Oberhaupt einer wohlhabenden Familie und ein Vertrauter des Königs. Es sind Zeiten des Umbruchs: Der Islam dringt in Afrika immer weiter vor, christliche Missionare und europäische Kolonisatoren kommen ins Land, der Sklavenhandel blüht. Dusikas Familie aber verliert immer mehr an Einfluss, bis sie schließlich auseinanderbricht. Maryse Con...

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Maryse Condé, Bestsellerautorin der Achtzigerjahre, meldet sich mit der Geschichte ihrer Großmutter zurück. Victoire Quidal wächst Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts in einer armen Familie auf Guadeloupe auf. Obwohl sie nie lesen und schreiben lernt und nur kreolisch spricht, legt sie als talentierte Köchin den Grundstein für den sozialen Aufstieg ihrer Nachkommen. Der faszinierende Lebensweg einer Frau in einer rassistischen und machistischen Gesellsc...