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Adanson, Michel, 1727-1806 -- Fiction.
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Diop, David, 1966-
Adanson, Michel, 1727-1806 -- Fiction.
Botanists -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Slave trade -- Fiction.
Senegal -- Fiction.
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Beyond
the
door
of
no
return
/ David Diop ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
by
Diop, David, 1966-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Call #:
FICTION DIO
Subjects
Adanson, Michel, 1727-1806 -- Fiction.
Botanists -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Slave trade -- Fiction.
Senegal -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780374606770 (hc.)
Uniform title:
Porte du voyage sans retour. English
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
243 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"A novel"--Cover.
Translated from the French.
Summary:
Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a woman's name: Maram. The key to this mysterious woman's identity is Adanson's unpublished memoir of the years he spent in Senegal, concealed in a secret compartment in a chest of drawers. Therein lies a story as fantastical as it is Maram, it turns out, is none other than the fabled revenant. A young woman of noble birth from the kingdom of Waalo, Maram was sold into slavery but managed to escape from the Island of Gorée -- a major embarkation point of the transatlantic slave trade -- to a small village hidden in the forest. While on a research expedition in West Africa as a young man, Adanson hears the story of the revenant and becomes obsessed with finding her. Accompanied by his guide, he ventures deep into the Senegalese bush on a journey that reveals not only the savagery of the French colonial occupation but also the unlikely transports of the human heart.
Genre:
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Black fiction
French fiction -- Translations into English.
Other authors:
Taylor, Sam, 1970-
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