David Diop
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Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
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Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a woman’s Maram. The key to this mysterious woman’s identity is Adanson’s unpublished memoir of the years he spent in Senegal, concealed in a secret compartment in a chest of drawers. Therein lies a story as fantastical as it is Maram, it turns out, is none...
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Language
English
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Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called "Chocolat" soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man's Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa's mind as he comes to see this refusal...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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Un europeo ilustrado del siglo XVIII en África: un viaje a las profundidades del alma humana.
En 1749 el botánico francés Michel Adanson desembarca en Senegal para estudiar la flora como parte de sus investigaciones para elaborar una gran enciclopedia. Permanecerá allí hasta 1753, año en que regresa a Europa.
Hasta aquí los hechos estrictamente históricos. A partir de ahí, el novelista David Diop imagina
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