Description
After three years abroad, Ayané returns to the Central African village of her birth—only to find that her foreign ways have made her an outsider among people who once knew her. As invading militia impose a “reuniting” ceremony, Ayané is drawn into a night of escalating violence that exposes how fear, tradition, and silence can become instruments of harm. In Léonora Miano’s incisive, psychologically charged style, the novel interrogates submission and responsibility, asking what it means to witness evil—and what it costs to look away. Dark Heart of the Night is a disturbing meditation on African identity and collective complicity, where survival instincts collide with the moral weight of community.
Available Editions
paperback
University of Nebraska Press
Published Jan 1, 2010
143 pages
ISBN: 9780803228238
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Details
First Published
2005
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Dark Heart of the Night by Léonora Miano.