The children of Segu / by Maryse Condé ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Condé, Maryse.

Contributor:

Coverdale, Linda, translator.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Ségou. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Ségou (Mali : Region)--History--Fiction.

Ségou (Mali : Region).

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 429 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Viking, 1989.

Contents:

The Straight Path

The Winding River

The Far Shore

The Bitter Flood

The Light of Allah.

Notes:

Originally published in France as Ségou: La terre en miettes by Éditions Robert Laffont 1985.

"First published in 1989 by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc."

Sequel to Segu (1987).

Maps on lining papers.

"Set on Bodoni Book."

"Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Jacket illustration by Michael Schumacher."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has review from Book World laid in.

ISBN:

0670807281