Segu
Maryse Conde. Ballantine Books, $27 (512pp) ISBN 978-0-345-35306-1
This family saga is set in the warlike kingdom of Segu (roughly present-day Mali) in the late 19th century. Conde is a born storyteller, commented PW, but the novel's ""cumulative effect is marred . . . by such a bewildering array of characters and such a density of cultural detail that the storyline becomes both sluggish and hard to follow.'' (May)
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Reviewed on: 03/12/1988
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 499 pages - 978-0-670-80728-4
Paperback - 512 pages - 978-0-14-025949-0