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The Belle Créole (CARAF Books) by Maryse Condé, Nicole Jenette Simek is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Belle Créole (CARAF Books) about?
Possessing one of the most vital voices in international letters, Maryse Condé added to an already acclaimed career the New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018. The twelfth novel by this celebrated author revolves around an enigmatic crime and the young man at its centre. Dieudonné Sabrina, a gardener, aged twenty-two and black, is accused of murdering his employer—and lover—Loraine, a wealthy white woman descended from plantation owners. His only refuge is a sailboat, La Belle Créole, a relic of times gone by. Maryse Condé follows Dieudonné's desperate wanderings through the city of Port-Mahault the night of his acquittal, the narrative unfolding through a series of multivoiced flashbacks set against a forbidding backdrop of social disintegration and tumultuous labour strikes in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Guadeloupe. Twenty-four hours later, Dieudonné's fate becomes suggestively intertwined with that of the French island itself, though the future of both...
Who reads The Belle Créole (CARAF Books)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Maryse Condé, Nicole Jenette Simek
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813944234
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance