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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Condé, Maryse.     Subjects     Homeless persons -- Fiction.     Men, Black -- Fiction.     Gardeners -- Fiction.     Social classes -- Fiction.     Racism -- Fiction.     Slavery -- Fiction.     Guadeloupe -- Fiction.     West Indies, French -- Fiction.     France -- Colonies -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Condé, Maryse.       by title:      The belle Créole / M...      Belle Créole. Englis...       by call number:      FICTION CON     Search the Web     Condé, Maryse.     Homeless persons -- Fiction.     Men, Black -- Fiction.     Gardeners -- Fiction.     Social classes -- Fiction.     Racism -- Fiction.     Slavery -- Fiction.     Guadeloupe -- Fiction.     West Indies, French -- Fiction.     France -- Colonies -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The belle Créole / Maryse Condé ; translated by Nicole Simek. by Condé, Maryse. University of Virginia Press, 2020. Call #: FICTION CON Subjects Homeless persons -- Fiction.   Men, Black -- Fiction.   Gardeners -- Fiction.   Social classes -- Fiction.   Racism -- Fiction.   Slavery -- Fiction.   Guadeloupe -- Fiction.   West Indies, French -- Fiction.   France -- Colonies -- Fiction. Series CARAF books. ISBN:  9780813944227 (trade pbk) Uniform title:  Belle Créole. English Description:  202 p. ; 23 cm. Notes:  Translated from the French. Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "The fourteenth novel by this celebrated author centers on an enigmatic crime blamed on a homeless man whose refuge is the ship La Belle Créole, anchored just offshore the city of Port-Mahault. The young gardener Dieudonne Sabrina is acquitted in the murder of his employer -- and lover -- Loraine, a wealthy white woman descended from plantation owners. Conde follows Dieudonne's desperate wanderings through the city the night of his release, the narrative unfolding through a series of multivoiced flashbacks set against a forbidding backdrop of social disintegration and tumultuous labor strikes in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Guadeloupe. Twenty-four hours later, Dieudonne's fate becomes suggestively intertwined with that of the French island itself, though the future of both remains uncertain in the end. Echoes of Faulkner and Lawrence, and even Shakespeare's Othello, resonate in this tale, yet the drama's uniquely modern dynamics set it apart from any model in its exploration of love and hate, politics and stereotype, and the attempt to find connections with others across barriers. Through her vividly and intimately drawn characters, Conde paints a rich portrait of a contemporary society grappling with the heritage of slavery, racism, and colonization."--Publisher. Genre:  Social commentary fiction. Black fiction. Literary fiction. French fiction -- Translations into English. Other authors:  Simek, Nicole Jenette, 1976- Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION CON Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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