Description
Set against the layered landscape of Martinique, this novel braids together the island’s colonial past with the pressures and possibilities of contemporary life. Through a richly rhetorical, orator-like narrative voice, it traces how histories of slavery and displacement continue to shape memory, identity, and the ways people speak to one another. As past and present interweave, the book explores themes of cultural survival, creolization, and the search for meaning in the aftermath of conquest. In the tradition of Edouard Glissant’s distinctive, globally resonant style, the story unfolds with lyrical intensity and philosophical reach, inviting readers to feel history not as a closed chapter, but as a living force.
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paperback
Gallimard
Published Feb 21, 1997
236 pages
ISBN: 9782070746255
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First Published
1975
Language
fra
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