Description
Spanning generations in Guadeloupe, this intimate family saga follows the Louis family as they move from grinding poverty toward the fragile comforts of middle-class life. Narrated by a descendant who feels both abandoned and compelled to remember, the story traces how love, betrayal, and ambition ripple through a community shaped by colonial history and racial hierarchy. As the narrator reconstructs her family’s past—through intimate relationships and far-reaching journeys—the novel becomes a meditation on memory, identity, and the cost of survival. With Maryse Condé’s lyrical, emotionally incisive style, the book turns personal history into a wider reckoning with the “tree” of inheritance that grows from both trauma and hope.
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Published Jan 1, 1994
396 pages
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First Published
1987
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
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