by Maryse Condé · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782709660662
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«Le fabuleux et triste destin d'Ivan et d'Ivana» is the novel by Maryse Condé, published in 2017 by JC Lattès in paperback (365 pages, in French).
Twins Ivan and Ivana are born in Guadeloupe; their Malian father, a musician and poet, left before they were born, and they grow up among women and music. Ivan loves his sister with excessive intensity, while his anger and her sweetness become destructive until a final confrontation: two inseparable lives, from the Antillean revolt to globalization.
First edition. With subtitle 'roman', the cover bears the mention 'Nobel alternatif' and the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature.
For those interested in the work of Maryse Condé and contemporary Caribbean literature, with stories of extreme bonds and 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).
