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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: David Diop
• Collaboration: Sam Taylor (Traduction), Taylor Sam (Traduction)
• Edition: Pushkin Press
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre de poche
• Date de parution: 01.09.2024
• Catégorie: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Littérature contemporaine (après 1945)
• EAN: 9781782278412
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-841-2
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Catégories: Senegal, Dakar, FICTION / General, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Resistance, Goncourt, Africa, Fiction in translation, Human trafficking, Colonialism, international booker prize, Social Justice, European Expansion, African History, middle passage, Fiction: general and literary, Abolition, West Africa, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, African Diaspora, Aiding escape and evasion, Gorée Island, cultural exchange, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Captivity narratives, Age of Enlightenment, Atlantic slave trade, african novel, french novel, Slave Rebellions, slavery novel, At Night All Blood is Black, slave trade novel, transatlantic trade, Senegal novel, La porte du voyage sans retour