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Paule Constant is the author of several novels, including , winner of the Prix Goncourt, and , both published by the University of Nebraska Press. Betsy Wing has translated Constant¿s previous novels published by the University of Nebraska Press, as well as ¿ouard Glissant¿s (Nebraska 2001) and H¿ne Cixous¿s (Nebraska 1991).

Paule Constant is the author of seven novels, including The Governor's Daughter (Nebraska 1998), which was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt in 1994. ¿Betsy Wing's translations include The Governor's Daughter, H¿ne Cixous's The Book of Promethea, and Edouard Glissant's The Fourth Century (all available from the University of Nebraska Press).¿Margot Miller teaches French at the University of Maryland.

The Governor's Daughter is a tale of innocence adrift in a monstrous world. Set just after World War I in the French penal colony in Cayenne, French Guiana, it is the story of Chretienne, the seven-year-old daughter of the colony's governor and his obsessively devout wife, whom the convicts acidly call the "Mother of God". Chretienne's disarmingly clear view of the adults with whom she lives - her pious parents and the notorious convicts in th...