by Erik Orsenna · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483102893
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In 'An African Lady', Erik Orsenna introduces us to Marguerite Bâ, a woman from Mali who, faced with the denial of a visa to search for her missing grandson in France, decides to address the French president directly. Through her story, the novel takes us into contemporary Africa, showing both its challenges and the richness of its human bonds. With a direct and uncomplacent prose, Orsenna invites us to reflect on the complexity of the African world and the reality of emigration.
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.
