Beyond the Door of No Return David Diop Pushkin Press

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\'A gripping, galloping narrative that challenges perceptions to the very last page\', Marie Claire \'David Diop has opened up a new way of thinking about the eighteenth century and its hideous cruelties\', Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature \'It\'s hard to imagine a more gripping or fertile subject\', Guardian_____ Prais, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson is dying. His last word is a woman\'s name: Maram. But who was she?Searching for the answer, Adanson\'s daughter discovers a journal of his youthful travels in Senegal, which tells a story of wild adventure and impossible desires. It reveals how he heard of a young woman sold into slavery who did the impossible and returned. How he became obsessed with finding her, whatever the cost. And how a man who longed to solve the mysteries of natural instead found himself grappling with the impulses of the heart. Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

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