by Erik Orsenna · FAYARD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213615455
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«Madame Bâ» is the novel by Erik Orsenna, published in 2003 by Fayard in paperback (450 pages, in French).
Madame Bâ, born in Mali in 1947, searches for her missing grandson in France after he pursued his soccer dream. Without a visa, she appeals to the French president and, form in hand, reviews her life: childhood by the Senegal River, marriage to a Peul man, eight children, and an Africa of violence, mafias, and broken dreams, but also of solidarity.
Part of the Littérature Française collection, no. 33.
For readers of contemporary French literature and novels about Africa and immigration.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
