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The belle CreÌ1ole by Maryse Condé. Translated by Nicole Simek. Afterword by Dawn Fulton is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 Translator's Acknowledgments 8 Afternoon 16 Dusk 44 Night 80 Epilogue 186 Glossary 192 Afterword 196 Bibliography 210 Publisher:University of Virginia Press,Published:2020,ISBN:9780813944234,Language:English,OCLC:1126348970 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 center. 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. 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 labor strikes in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Guadeloupe. Twenty-four hours later, Dieudonné’s fate becomes suggestively intertwined with that of the French isl

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Author

Maryse Condé. Translated by Nicole Simek. Afterword by Dawn Fulton

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9782715246027

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance