Segu

Name: Segu
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Author: Maryse Condé
ISBN: 9780241293522

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Maryse Condé, Barbara Bray

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Paru le : 06/04/2017

The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynastyIt is 1797 and the African... > Lire la suite

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The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynastyIt is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. Yet Dousika Traore, the king's most trusted advisor, feels nothing but dread. Change is coming. From the East, a new religion, Islam. From the West, the slave trade. These forces will tear his country, his village and the lives of his beloved sons apart, in Maryse Condé's glittering epic.

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Date de parution : 06/04/2017
Editeur : PENGUIN
Collection : Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN : 978-0-241-29352-2
EAN : 9780241293522
Format : ePub
Nb. de pages : 512 pages

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- Pages : 512
- Protection num. : Contenu protégé

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Maryse Condé was born at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, in 1937 and spent most of her life in West Africa (Guinea, Ghana and Senegal), France and the US, where she taught at the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA and Columbia. The publication of her bestselling third novel, Segu (1984), established her pre-eminent position among Caribbean writers. She won Le Grand Prix Littéraire de la Femme in 1986 as well as Le Prix de L'Académie Française in 1988 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015.
In 2018 she was awarded the alternative Nobel prize for literature and described as 'grand storyteller who belongs to world literature'.