by Maryse Condé · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070385461
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«Traversée de la mangrove» is the novel by Maryse Condé originally published by Mercure de France in paperback (250 pages, in French).
In Rivière au Sel, a village in Guadeloupe, the wake of Francis Sancher, an outsider who arrived some time ago, brings the whole community together. During the night, each neighbour recalls in confessions or in silence the mark the dead man left on their life; from these voices emerges a choral portrait of the island, with grudges, secrets and contradictions.
The Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé, also author of «Segu», originally published this novel in France in 1989.
For those interested in Caribbean literature and in novels that weave together different voices around a single event.
Maryse Condé was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. She was also an academic, whose teaching career took her to West Africa and North America, as well as the Caribbean and Europe. As a writer, Condé is best known for her novel Ségou (1984–1985).
