by Raphaël Confiant · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246438816
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«Eau de café» is the novel by Raphaël Confiant, published by B. Grasset in 1991 in paperback (331 pages, in French).
The narrator returns to Grande-Anse, a village in Martinique that turns its back on the sea, where his godmother runs the shop «Eau de Café», a meeting point for characters such as Thimoléon, Cassagnac, René-Couli and Antilia. Confiant weaves a colourful and magical world that mixes dream and reality, fantasy and logic, with a language close to Antillean speech.
It was published in Paris and is registered in the Library of Congress under the classification MLCM 92/03495 (P).
For readers interested in Caribbean fiction and in prose marked by Antillean speech.
Raphaël Confiant is a Martinican writer known for his literary commitment towards Creole literature.
