Description
In a pre-colonial Cameroonian community, twelve villagers vanish without explanation, plunging mothers and neighbors into a collective dread that blurs the line between waking life and dream. As a suffocating shadow spreads across the huts and the missing sons’ voices rise in terror, the novel confronts the first, devastating incursions of the transatlantic slave trade from the perspective of those who were taken before the world could name what was happening. Léonora Miano’s deliberately strange, dreamlike prose turns history into an unsettling, intimate experience—one that feels both immediate and eerily inevitable. At its core, the book explores loss, complicity and resistance, the fragility of memory, and how violence can arrive like darkness, slowly and then all at once.
Available Editions
paperback
University of Chicago Press
Published Jan 1, 2018
224 pages
ISBN: 9780857424808
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Details
First Published
2013
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Season of the Shadow by Léonora Miano.