Macadam Dreams

A story of self-discovery, "Macadam Dreams speaks eloquently of the violence and poverty endured by the women of Guadeloupe. Viewed by many as a canonical author in the Creole movement in Francophone literature, Pineau has created an extraordinary work that is recognized as a masterpiece of French-Caribbean literature.

About the author

Gisèle Pineau is a psychiatric nurse and novelist living in Guadeloupe. C. Dickson is a translator living in France whose translations include Mohammad Dib's The Savage Night and J. M. G. Le Clézio's The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts, both published by the University of Nebraska Press.

Summary

Talks about the two cataclysms that devastated Eliette's life: the cyclone of 1928, when she was eight years old, and the Hurricane Hugo, whose destruction shatters the elaborate defenses the old woman has built around the sorrows of her life in the town of Savane Mulet. This is a novel about the wayward violence of love and nature in Guadeloupe.

Product details

• Authors: Gisele Pineau
• Assisted by: C. Dickson (Translation)
• Publisher: Nebraska
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2003
• EAN: 9780803287730
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-8773-0
• No. of pages: 215
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 223 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature