Beyond the Door of No Return Diop David
Beyond the Door of No Return Diop David The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.Paris, 1806. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a…
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Beyond the Door of No Return Diop David
The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.Paris, 1806. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a woman's name: Maram.The key to this mysterious woman's identity is Adanson's unpublished memoir of the years he spent in Senegal, concealed in a secret compartment in a chest of drawers. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete.
A young woman of noble birth from the kingdom of Waalo, Maram was sold into slavery but managed to escape from the Island of Gore--a major embarkation point of the transatlantic slave trade--to a small village hidden in the forest. Therein lies a story as fantastical as it is tragic: Maram, it turns out, is none other than the fabled revenant. While on a research expedition in West Africa as a young man,
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