Segu

Winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize for Literature 2018 The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynasty It is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. Yet Dousika Traore, the king's most trusted advisor, feels nothing but dread. Change is coming. From the East, a new religion, Islam. From the West, the slave trade. These forces will tear his country, his village and the lives of his beloved sons apart, in Maryse Conde's glittering epic. 'Rich and colorful and glorious. It sprawls over continents and centuries to find its way into the reader's heart' - Maya Angelou 'A stunning reaffirmation of Africa and its peoples... It's a starburst' - John A. Williams

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Bray, Maryse Conde, Maryse Condé
• Assisted by: Barbara Bray (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.04.2017
• EAN: 9780241293515
• ISBN: 978-0-241-29351-5
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Ségou / Segu
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); West Africa, c 1790 to c 1799