Mayse Conde, Author, Maryse Conde, Author, Victoria Reiter, Translator Ballantine Books $18 (371p) ISBN 978-0-345-36074-8
In her masterful new novel, the Guadeloupeansp ok author of Segu and Children of Segu sifts through the dreams and realities of an archetypal family to reveal the destiny of a people. Albert Louis, great-grandfather of the story's narrator, escapes...
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Maryse Conde, Author , trans. from the French by Richard Philcox. Atria $23 (232p) ISBN 978-0-7434-8260-8
In 1995, on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, an infant was found lying in garbage with her throat cut, a crime celebrated author Condé (Tree of Life
; Desirada
) takes as inspiration for her 12th novel. Like Rushdie and Grass, Cond&e
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Maryse Conde, Author Ballantine Books $27 (512p) 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...
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Maryse Conde, Author Penguin Books $17 (512p) ISBN 978-0-14-025949-0
Set in an 18h-century African kingdom, Conde's novel examines the cultural transformations brought about by the rise of Islam and the slave trade. (Sept.)
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Maryse Conde, Author, Richard Philcox, Translator . Soho $21 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56947-264-4
Caribbean novelist Condé (Windward Heights) discloses her complex childhood in her native Guadaloupe and in Paris, and celebrates imagination and youthful defiance in this short, heartfelt memoir. A surprise pregnancy and the youngest of eight...
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Maryse Conde, Author, Richard Philcox, Translator , trans. from the French by Richard Philcox. Atria $24 (311p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7128-8
Caribbean author Condé (Crossing the Mangrove
) makes one woman's search for identity a vehicle to explore a vast range of racial, cultural and gender issues in a seething novel that exposes the violent ferment of postapartheid South...
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Maryse Conde, Author, Richard Philcox, Translator . Atria $16 (195p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9276-1
Turning her historical fiction chops on her own family, novelist Condé (Story of the Cannibal Woman
) looks at her grandmother Victoire’s hard life in Guadeloupe at the turn of the 19th century, “a prisoner of her illiteracy, her...
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Maryse Conde, Author, Richard Philcox, Translator Anchor Books $15 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-47633-1
``Perhaps we should weed out from our heads the Guinea grass and quitch grass of our old grudges. Perhaps we should teach our hearts a new beat,'' muses the clairvoyant Mama Sonson as she joins in the curious wake for Francis Sancher, a stranger who
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Maryse Conde, Author, Richard Philcox, Translator Soho Press $24 (352p) ISBN 978-1-56947-161-6
A professor of French Caribbean literature at Columbia University and a prize-winning author whose novels (including I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and Segu) draw upon African and Caribbean history, Cond sets her latest offering--a complex...
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Maryse Conde, Author, Richard Philcox, Translator Soho Press $24 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56947-215-6
Cond (Windward Heights, etc.) churns out novels the way the sea churns waves: gracefully, effortlessly and one after the other. Her 12th and most cathartic to date begins on the French-Caribbean island of Guadeloupe when the pregnant, teenaged...
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Maryse Conde, Author, Richard Philcox, Translator, Angela Yvonne Davis, Foreword by University of Virginia Press $19.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-8139-1398-8
The author of the highly recommended intergenerational saga Tree of Life (Fiction Forecasts, June 29) moves from her native Guadeloupe to colonial New England in this potent novel. Revising the legend of a slave woman accused of practicing...
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Maryse Conde, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator Ballantine Books $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-36634-4
This sequel to Segu concerns the 19th-century tribal wars, Islamic conquest and French occupation of the African kingdom, focusing on characters with kinship bonds to the Traore family. ``Male characters supply the dominant points of views; women...
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Maryse Conde, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator Viking Books $18.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-670-82981-1
Sequel to Guadeloupan author Conde's highly praised Segu , this historical novel trudges through the 19th-century tribal wars, Islamic conquest and French occupation of the African kingdom of Segu, situated on the Niger River in what is now Mali....
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Maryse Condé, trans. from the French by Nicole Simek. Univ. of Virginia, $21.95 trade paper (212p) ISBN 978-0-8139-4422-7
A young man searches for a way to go on living after being cleared of murder charges in
Condé’s rich, dramatic tale (after Victoire) set on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Dieudonné, a “timid and awkward” 22-year-old, has just been acquitted...
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