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Beyond the door of no return / David Diop ; ... Read More

Diop, David, 1966-(author.).
Taylor, Sam, 1970-(translator.).

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  • ISBN: 9780374606770
  • ISBN: 0374606773
  • Physical Description: 243 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

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English translation of Porte du voyage sans retour.
Summary, etc.:
"A historical novel about a French botanist's ... Read More
Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson ... Read More

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Subject: Adanson, Michel, 1727-1806 > Fiction.
Botanists > Fiction.
Enslaved women > Fiction.
Slavery > Fiction.
Senegal > Fiction.
France > Colonies > Africa > Fiction.
Genre: Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Novels.
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520 . ‡aParis, 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 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 The key to this mysterious woman's identity is Adanson's unpublished memoir of the years he spent in Senegal, concealed in a secret compartment in a chest of drawers.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.
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