by Maryse Condé · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266086974
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«Desirada» is the modern fiction novel by Maryse Condé, published by Pocket in paperback (280 pages, in French).
Raised on La Désirade after being abandoned by her mother, Marie-Noëlle leaves for France and tries to reconstruct her past by questioning her mother and grandmother. Their answers, full of half-truths, reveal three generations of Caribbean women marked by motherhood, freedom and family silences.
It is Maryse Condé's twelfth novel and won the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe in 1998; the French Pocket edition came out in November 1998.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Caribbean literature, with an interest in stories of family, memory and female identity.
Maryse Condé was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. She was also an academic, whose teaching career took her to West Africa and North America, as well as the Caribbean and Europe. As a writer, Condé is best known for her novel Ségou (1984–1985).
