by Erik Orsenna · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253112464
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«Madame Bâ» is the novel by Erik Orsenna, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback, in French, with 507 pages.
Madame Bâ Marguerite, born in 1947 in Mali, applies for a visa to find her missing grandson in France. The questions on the official form lead her to review her childhood by the Senegal River, her education, her marriage to a Peul man and her eight children. The narrative addresses contemporary Africa with its violence, broken dreams and mafias, and also its capacity for solidarity; Orsenna explores the relations between France and its former empire from the South's perspective.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in French literature and in stories about colonial heritage and present-day Africa.
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.
