Summary
"A historical novel about a French botanist's search for a mysterious woman who escaped from slavery in Senegal"-- Full description
Summary: |
"A historical novel about a French botanist's search for a mysterious woman who escaped from slavery in Senegal"-- |
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Physical Description: |
243 pages ; 22 cm |
ISBN: |
9780374606770 0374606773 |
Author Notes: |
David Diop is the author of At Night All Blood Is Black , which was awarded the International Booker Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Born in Paris and raised in Senegal, he is a professor of literature at the University of Pau, where his research encompasses topics including eighteenth-century French literature and European representations of Africa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |