by Catherine Missonnier · Thierry Magnier Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782844201041
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«Le goût de la mangue» is the young adult novel by Catherine Missonnier, published by Thierry Magnier Editions in paperback (214 pages, in French).
In colonial Madagascar in 1956, Anna, a fifteen-year-old French teenager, boards at the French lycée in Tananarive and feels out of place among the privileged white youth. When she meets Léon, a Malagasy student with whom she falls in love, the independence tensions simmering on the island burst into her daily life and confront her with questions about identity and colonialism.
First edition: March 2001. Work originally written in French; classified as young adult literature.
Recommended for readers aged 12 and up, particularly for those who enjoy stories set in historical contexts and social tension.
