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Desiree Congo

by Evelyne Trouillot

~~32,46€~~ 29,21€ 10% OFF

 The newest English translation of one of Haiti’s most powerful literary voices Désirée Congo is a riveting, powerful, and profoundly original novel set in the final years of the Haitian Revolution at the dawn of the nineteenth century. In this richly textured work, Trouillot—one of the leading voices of the francophone literary world—constructs an intricate narrative web from the varied experiences of freedmen and women, maroons, enslaved African people and their Creole children, as well as French planters and white smallholders in colonial Saint-Domingue at a historical moment of unthinkable upheaval. It is a moving, lyrical book whose strikingly realized characters enrich our understanding of the last confrontations between the Haitian revolutionaries and Napoleon’s imperial forces—a conflict that resulted in the success of the largest slave revolt in recorded history and the independence of the first Black state in the western hemisphere.
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Waltz

by Lynda Chouiten

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 A prize-winning novel from one of Algeria’s rising literary stars In A Waltz, Lynda Chouiten depicts an irreverent and creative woman with an artistic temperament navigating the stiflingly conservative society in which she was raised. The narrative follows the path of Chahira, a seamstress from El Moudja—a fictional small coastal town in the Kabyle region of Algeria—to an international design competition in Vienna. Along the way, A Waltz expresses the strain of competing value systems, regional identities and expectations, and a cacophony of voices bearing down upon one woman while asking challenging questions about the nature of madness, confinement, and resistance to a patriarchal world.
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Last Of The African Kings

by Maryse Condé

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 Follows the wayward fortunes of a noble African family. A book made up of many characters and countless stories, The Last of the African Kings skillfully intertwines the themes of exile, lost origins, memory, and hope. Set mainly in the Americas, from the Caribbean to modern-day South Carolina, yet Africa hovers always in the background.
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Popa Singer

by Rene Depestre

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 The most recent book by renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, and poet Rene Depestre, Popa Singer is a semi-autobiographical chronicle of Haiti in the late 1950s, the very moment when the country first came under decades of despotic rule.
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Popa Singer

by Rene Depestre

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 The most recent book by renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, and poet Rene Depestre, Popa Singer is a semi-autobiographical chronicle of Haiti in the late 1950s, the very moment when the country first came under decades of despotic rule.
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Popa Singer

by Rene Depestre

~~32,46€~~ 29,21€ 10% OFF

 The most recent book by renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, and poet Rene Depestre, Popa Singer is a semi-autobiographical chronicle of Haiti in the late 1950s, the very moment when the country first came under decades of despotic rule.
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I Am Alive

by Kettly Mars

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 Presents celebrated Haitian author Kettly Marsâ€™s latest novel, telling the story of a bourgeois Caribbean family as it wrestles with issues of mental illness, unconventional sexuality, and the difficulty of returning home and rediscovery following the devastating 2010 earthquake.
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Crusoe'S Footprint

by Patrick Chamoiseau

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 Patrick Chamoiseauâ€™s novel contrasts two intertwining narratives - the log entries of a slave shipâ€™s captain and the story of a castaway who awakens on a beach and must rebuild his entire world alone. This powerful work by a literary master is available in English for the first time in this eloquent and vivid translation.
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Humus

by Fabienne Kanor

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 The intertwined narratives of this novel reveal the brutalizing effects of slavery, not only on the victim but also on the oppressor: the master can no more escape its dehumanizing effects than can the slave.
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Belle Creole

by Maryse Condé

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 Possessing one of the most vital voices in international letters, Maryse CondÃ© added to an already acclaimed career the New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018. The fourteenth novel by this celebrated author revolves around an enigmatic crime and the young man at its centre.
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Dezafi

by Frankétienne

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 This is no ordinary zombie novel. In the hands of the great Haitian author known simply as FrankÃ©tienne, zombification takes on a symbolic dimension that stands as a potent commentary on a country haunted by a history of slavery. Now this dynamic new translation brings this touchstone in Haitian literature to English-language readers for the first time.
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Do You Hear In The Mountains... And Other Stories

by Maïssa Bey

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 This new translation brings together two of Algerian author MaÂ´ssa Bey's important works for the first time in English. Do You Hear in the Mountains... is a compelling piece of autofiction in which three destinies meet dramatically on a train moving through France. The eleven diverse tales that follow exemplify some of Bey's recurring themes.
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I Die By This Country

by Fawzia Zouari

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 Inspired by an actual news story from the French headlines, I Die by This Country introduces us to NacÃ©ra and Amira. Casting her mind back in the midst of the opening pages' upheaval, NacÃ©ra pieces together her fragmentary knowledge of her parents' lives in rural French Algeria and their immigration to Paris in the years following Algeria's war for independence.
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Memory At Bay

by Evelyne Trouillot

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 Winner of the prestigious Prix Carbet, Memory at Bay is now available in an English translation that brings to life this powerful novel by one of Haitiâ€™s most vital authors, Ã‰velyne Trouillot. Trouillot introduces us to a bedridden widow of a notorious dictator (in effect, a portrait of Papa Doc Duvalier) and the young Ã©migrÃ© who attends to her needs but who harbors a secret.
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Leopard Boy

by Daniel Picouly

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 "Originally published in French as L'Enfant leopard; (c) Editions Grasset & Faquelle, 1999" -- Verso title page.
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Arabic As A Secret Song

by Leila Sebbar

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 The celebrated and highly versatile writer LeÃ¯la Sebbar was born in French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life in France, where she is recognised as a major voice on the penetrating effects of colonialism in contemporary society. The dramatic contrast between her past and present is the subject of the nine autobiographical essays collected in this volume.
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Fury And Cries Of Women

by Angèle Rawiri

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 <DIV>Gabon’s first female novelist, Angèle Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her—Mariama Bâ and Aminata Sow Fall—had begun to address. Translated by Sara Hanaburgh, this third novel of the three Rawiri published is considered the richest of her fictional prose. It offers a gripping account of a modern woman, Emilienne, who questions traditional values and seeks emancipation from them.Emilienne’s active search for feminism on her own terms is tangled up with cultural expectations and taboos of motherhood, marriage, polygamy, divorce, and passion. She completes her university studies in Paris; marries a man from another ethnic group; becomes a leader in women’s liberation; enjoys professional success, even earning more than her husband; and eventually takes a female lover. Yet still she remains unsatisfied. Those closest to her, and even she herself, constantly question her role as woman, wife, mother, and lover. The tragic death of her only child—her daughter Rékia—accentuates Emilienne’s anguish, all the more so because of her subsequent barrenness and the pressure that she concede to her husband’s taking a second wife.In her forceful portrayal of one woman’s life in Central Africa in the late 1980s, Rawiri prompts us not only to reconsider our notions of African feminism and the canon of francophone African women’s writing but also to expand our awareness of the issues women face across the world today in the workforce, in the bedroom, and among family and peers.</DIV>
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Far From My Father

by Veronique Tadjo

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 "This novel by the poet and writer, public intellectual and critic, Veronique Tadjo, from the Ivory Coast, illuminates both the civil strife in that country and the tension between traditional mores and modern lifestyles. The novel considers such issues as the evolving role of women, the legacy of polygamy, and the economic challenges of daily life in Abidjan" --
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Climb To The Sky

by Suzanne Dracius

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 <DIV>Climb to the Sky collects a novella and eight stories by one of the most celebrated and versatile French Caribbean writers, Suzanne Dracius. Set in the author’s native Martinique and spanning the twentieth century, these narratives display a powerful grasp of the individual set against an often violent history. The multi-generational novella "Her Destiny on Climb to the Sky Street" opens with the gripping account of a runaway slave’s survival of disease and abuse aboard a slave ship and concludes with his descendant, a young woman living in a post-abolition world whose life of abuse and torture by her employers nonetheless resembles that of a slave. In "Sweat, Sugar, and Blood," a woman held captive by her husband in their home must choose between safe ignorance and dangerous knowledge. Other stories, such as "Chlorophyllian Creation" and "Written in Lime Juice," convey the intimacy and directness of autobiographical essays.Each of Dracius’s heroines achieves a transcendental experience through her own imagination and will, whether she is escaping natural catastrophe (such as the eruption of Mount Pelée), enduring jail time under interrogation by the national police, or coping with the ennui of life in a bourgeois home. Although the results of these historical, natural, or existential circumstances are unpredictable, what unites these women is deliverance.CARAF: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from the French</DIV>
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The Burial And Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

by Mohammed Khair-Eddine

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A Waltz

by Lynda Chouiten

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The Burial And Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

by Mohammed Khair-Eddine

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A Waltz

by Lynda Chouiten

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Desiree Congo

by Evelyne Trouillot

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