by Calixthe Beyala · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432247811
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«Los honores perdidos» is the contemporary novel by Calixthe Beyala, published by Seix Barral in paperback (318 pages, in Spanish).
A young African woman raised in a shantytown suburb witnesses a world the author describes as picturesque and at the same time terrible. The novel follows her departure for Paris, where, as an illegal immigrant, she tries to rebuild her life by working in domestic service.
Winner of the Grand Prix du Roman of the French Academy. Original title: Les Honneurs perdus.
For readers interested in contemporary African fiction and stories of migration, identity, and life on the margins.
Calixthe Beyala is a Cameroonian-French writer who writes in French.
