by Erik Orsenna · Stock · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234063365
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«Mali, ô Mali» is the novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Stock in paperback (416 pages, in French).
Madame Bâ Marguerite, self-proclaimed 'African Joan of Arc', wants to free Mali from the jihadists; her grandson, a former footballer and griot, narrates her campaign. Women fleeing sharia, the Sahara's illegal economy and the alliance between bandits and jihadists appear, as they sail up the Niger to Timbuktu; music and weaving sustain the country's bonds.
The edition belongs to Stock's 'La Bleue' collection, published on 19 February 2014. Erik Orsenna appears on the cover as a member of the Académie française.
For readers of contemporary fiction with an interest in Africa, Malian culture and the region's current conflicts.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
