Libro Segu (Penguin Modern Classics) De Maryse Condé

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Penguin Classics

Autor

Maryse Condé

Categoría

Literatura

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780241293515

N° edición

Segu (Penguin Modern Classics)

Maryse Condé (Autor) · Penguin Classics · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Segu (Penguin Modern Classics)"

Winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize for Literature 2018 The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynasty It is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. Yet Dousika Traore, the king's most trusted advisor, feels nothing but dread. Change is coming. From the East, a new religion, Islam. From the West, the slave trade. These forces will tear his country, his village and the lives of his beloved sons apart, in Maryse Condé's glittering epic.'Rich and colorful and glorious. It sprawls over continents and centuries to find its way into the reader's heart' - Maya Angelou'A stunning reaffirmation of Africa and its peoples... It's a starburst' - John A. Williams