Maryse Condé

Conde depicts the Bambara of 1797, a kingdom in Africa flourishing before thecoming of Islam and slavery. The tale follows the Traore family, a noble clanentrusted by the king. The four Traore sons embody the contemporaneous forcestearing at the very fabric of the nation.

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None of the villagers are particularly surprised when Francis Sancher, a secretive amd melancholy man who predicted an unnatural death for himself, is found dead, face down in the mud. But, as the villagers pay their respects, each of them reveals another piece of the mystery behind Sancher's life and death.

Crossing the Mangrove

Richard Philcox

This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Condé brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary ‘Nanny of the maroons,’" who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, is arrested for healing members of the family that owns her. CARAF Books:Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French This book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY.

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

By the winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel prize in literature, a novel of twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings for one another.

The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana

"A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumored to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean author Maryse Condé follows his journey in search of his origins and mission. One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: "A miracle!" Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with gray-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of God? So goes the rumor, and many signs throughout his life will cause this theory to gain ground. From journey to journey and from one community to another, Pascal sets off in search of his origins, trying to understand the meaning of his mission. Will he be able to change the fate of humanity? And what will the New World Gospel reveal? For all its beauty, vivacity, humor, and power, Maryse Condé's latest novel is above all a work of combat. Lucid and full of conviction, Condé attests that solidarity and love remain our most extraordinary and lifesaving forces"--

The Gospel According to the New World

Livro premiado de uma das mais importantes escritoras negras da atualidade, vencedora do New Academy Prize 2018 (Prêmio Nobel Alternativo) Tituba, mulher negra, nascida em Barbados, no século XVII, renasce, três séculos depois. Torna-se outra vez real, pelas mãos da premiada escritora Maryse Condé, vencedora do New Academy Prize 2018 (Prêmio Nobel Alternativo). No início do livro, Maryse Condé anota: "Tituba e eu vivemos uma estreita intimidade durante um ano. Foi no correr de nossas intermináveis conversas que ela me disse essas coisas que ainda não havia confiado a ninguém." Da mesma forma, quem lê Tituba poderá ouvi-la falar, do invisível, desestabilizando estruturas cristalizadas, mediando novas concepções de identidades e culturas e protegendo as pessoas insurgentes. Aqui, essa personagem fascinante, é retirada do silêncio a que a historiografia lhe destinou. Filha de uma mulher negra escravizada, viveu cedo o terror de ver a mãe assassinada por se defender do estupro de um homem branco e de saber que o pai se matou por causa do mesmo homem branco. Cresceu sob os cuidados de uma mulher que tinha o poder da cura e que a iniciou nos mistérios. Adulta, apaixonou-se por John Indien e abdicou, por ele, da própria liberdade. Uma das primeiras mulheres julgadas por praticar bruxaria nos tribunais de Salem, em 1692, Tituba fora escravizada e levada para a Nova Inglaterra pelo pastor Samuel Parris, que a denunciou. Mesmo protegida pelos espíritos, não pôde escapar das mentiras e acusações da histeria puritana daquela época.

Bruxa negra de Salem

Eu, Tituba

The renowned Caribbean novelist puts a new spin on Emily Brontd's Wuthering Heights, resetting the story in nineteenth-century Cuba and Guadeloupe with Creole characters. Reprint.

Windward Heights

A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumored to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean author Maryse Condé follows his journey in search of his origins and mission. One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: "A miracle!" Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with gray-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of God? So goes the rumor, and many signs throughout his life will cause this theory to gain ground. From journey to journey and from one community to another, Pascal sets off in search of his origins, trying to understand the meaning of his mission. Will he be able to change the fate of humanity? And what will the New World Gospel reveal? For all its beauty, vivacity, humor, and power, Maryse Condé's latest novel is above all a work of combat. Lucid and full of conviction, Condé attests that solidarity and love remain our most extraordinary and lifesaving forces.

Yo, Tituba, la Bruja Negra de Salem

Babakar is an African doctor living alone until the child Anaïs comes into his life. Forced to abandon his solitude, he takes her to Haiti in search of her family.

Waiting for the Waters to Rise

"It is impossible to read her novels and not come away from them with both a sadder and more exhilarating understanding of the human heart." - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Rapidly shifting between Guadeloupe and Harlem, moving from Haiti's desperate slums to the exclusive enclaves of the Parisian upper class, this deeply personal tale traces one Guadeloupe family's rise from poverty to riches through several generations. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Tree of Life

Martha Asunción Alonso Moreno

Cuentos verdaderos de mi infancia

Corazón que ríe, corazón que llora

رواية

أنا تيتوبا ساحرة سالم السوداء

Io, Tituba strega nera di Salem

"In Rihata, a small, sleepy backwater town in a fictitious African state, a couple and their family struggle to come to terms with each other against a background of political manoeuvring and upheaval."--Back cover.

A Season in Rihata

The Children of Segu

What Is Africa to Me? traces the late 1950s to 1968, chronicling Condé's life in Sékou Touré's Guinea to her time in Kwame N'Krumah's Ghana, where she rubbed shoulders with Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Julius Nyerere, and Maya Angelou. Accusations of subversive activity resulted in Condé's deportation from Ghana. Settling down in Sénégal, Condé ended her African years with close friends in Dakar, including filmmakers, activists, and Haitian exiles, before putting down more permanent roots in Paris. --Front flap.

Fragments of a True-to-life Autobiography

What Is Africa to Me?

Veronica Mercier, a sophisticated Caribbean woman teaching and living in Paris, goes to a West African country to complete her search for self-identity. There, she finds herself involved with a nigger with ancestors - a cold, calculating minister for the interior and heir to the presidency.

Heremakhonon

À Rivière au Sel, en plein cœur de la forêt, on veille un mort, un homme qui s’est installé dans le village quelques années auparavant et dont on ne sait pas grand-chose.
Est-il cubain ? colombien ? A-t-il déserté ? Pourquoi est-il revenu en Guadeloupe ? Les réponses ne sont pas claires.
Cependant peu importe la véritable identité de cet homme. Ce qui importe, c’est l’image que les individus gardent chacun de lui et les modifications essentielles qu’il a apportées dans leurs vies.
Dans le temps clos de cette seule nuit, au-delà de cette petite communauté, c’est toute la société guadeloupéenne d’aujourd’hui qui se dessine, avec ses conflits, ses contradictions et ses tensions.

Maryse Condé

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