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Beyond the door of no return / David Diop ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
"A historical novel about a French botanist's search for a mysterious woman who escaped from slavery in Senegal"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374606770 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 243 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
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| Subject: | Adanson, Michel, 1727-1806 > Fiction. Botanists > Fiction. Slavery > Fiction. Women > Fiction. Senegal > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Diop | 31681010339497 | FICTION | Available | - |
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.
Sam Taylor is an award-winning literary translator and novelist. He has translated more than sixty books from the French, including Laurent Binetâs HHhH and Leïla Slimaniâs The Perfect Nanny.
