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ID: 813784
Title: Beyond the Door of No Return: A Novel
Author: David Diop
Narrator: Adenrele Ojo, Caroline Hewitt, Dion Graham, Mark Bramhall
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:05:45
Language: English
Release date: 09-19-23
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Summary:
'Stunningly realized . . . Exquisite . . . A spellbinding novel about the high price of betrayalof others, and oneself.' Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for the Booker Prize
One of the Los Angeles Times's most anticipated books of the fall
The thrilling and deeply moving new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.
Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a womans name: Maram.
The key to this mysterious womans identity is Adansons unpublished memoir of the years he spent in Senegal, concealed in a secret compartment in a chest of drawers. Therein lies a story as fantastical as it is tragic: Maram, it turns out, is none other than the fabled revenant. A young woman of noble birth from the kingdom of Waalo, Maram was sold into slavery but managed to escape from the Island of Goréea major embarkation point of the transatlantic slave tradeto a small village hidden in the forest. While on a research expedition in West Africa as a young man, Adanson hears the story of the revenant and becomes obsessed with finding her. Accompanied by his guide, he ventures deep into the Senegalese bush on a journey that reveals not only the savagery of the French colonial occupation but also the unlikely transports of the human heart.
Written with sensitivity and narrative flair, David Diops Beyond the Door of No Return is a love story like few others. Drawing on the richness and lyricism of Senegals oral traditions, Diop has constructed a historical epic of the highest order.
Contact: [email protected]
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ID: 813784
Title: Beyond the Door of No Return: A Novel
Author: David Diop
Narrator: Adenrele Ojo, Caroline Hewitt, Dion Graham, Mark Bramhall
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:05:45
Language: English
Release date: 09-19-23
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Summary:
'Stunningly realized . . . Exquisite . . . A spellbinding novel about the high price of betrayalof others, and oneself.' Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for the Booker Prize
One of the Los Angeles Times's most anticipated books of the fall
The thrilling and deeply moving new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.
Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a womans name: Maram.
The key to this mysterious womans identity is Adansons unpublished memoir of the years he spent in Senegal, concealed in a secret compartment in a chest of drawers. Therein lies a story as fantastical as it is tragic: Maram, it turns out, is none other than the fabled revenant. A young woman of noble birth from the kingdom of Waalo, Maram was sold into slavery but managed to escape from the Island of Goréea major embarkation point of the transatlantic slave tradeto a small village hidden in the forest. While on a research expedition in West Africa as a young man, Adanson hears the story of the revenant and becomes obsessed with finding her. Accompanied by his guide, he ventures deep into the Senegalese bush on a journey that reveals not only the savagery of the French colonial occupation but also the unlikely transports of the human heart.
Written with sensitivity and narrative flair, David Diops Beyond the Door of No Return is a love story like few others. Drawing on the richness and lyricism of Senegals oral traditions, Diop has constructed a historical epic of the highest order.
Contact: [email protected]