by Erik Orsenna · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253068396
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«Mali, ô Mali» is the novel by Erik Orsenna, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (456 pages, in French).
Madame Bâ Marguerite sets out to free Mali from the jihadists, and her grandson, a former soccer player turned griot, narrates that campaign, half glorious, half desperate. Women who fled sharia, frightened officers, bandits allied with jihadists, and musicians who weave the country's bonds all parade by, until the story ends in Timbuktu with the arrival of the French.
Madame Bâ, a character already present in Erik Orsenna's earlier fiction, returns as the protagonist.
For readers of contemporary French fiction seeking a story with a political backdrop about present-day Mali and a memorable female character.
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.
