Beyond the Door of No Return

From the author of the International Booker Prize-winning At Night All Blood is Black: a moving and immersive adventure story set in eighteenth century SenegalParis, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson is dying. His last word is a woman's name: Maram. But who was she?Searching for the answer, Adanson's daughter discovers a journal of his youthful travels in Senegal, which tellsa story of wild adventure and impossible desires. It reveals how he heard of a young woman sold into slavery who did the impossible and returned. How he became obsessed with finding her, whatever the cost. And how a man who longed to solve the mysteries of nature instead found himself grappling with the impulses of the heart.

Product details

• Authors: David Diop
• Assisted by: Sam Taylor (Translation), Taylor Sam (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9781782278412
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-841-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Senegal, Dakar, FICTION / General, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Africa, Fiction in translation, African History, Fiction: general and literary, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Aiding escape and evasion, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary