Beyond the rice fields / Naivo ; translated from the French by Allison M. Charette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naivo, author.

Contributor:

Charette, Allison M., translator.

Standardized Title:

Au-delà des rizières. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Madagascar--Fiction.

Madagascar.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

358 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Restless Books paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2017.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

Fara and her father's slave, Tsito, have been close since her father bought the boy after his forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice fields, everything is new for Tsito, and Fara at last has a companion. But as Tsito looks forward to the bright promise of freedom and Fara, backward to a dark, long-denied family history, a rift opens between them just as British Christian missionaries and French industrialists arrive and violence erupts across the country. Love and innocence fall away, and Tsito and Fara's world becomes enveloped by tyranny, superstition, and fear. -- amazon.com

Notes:

Excerpts of this text appeared, in slightly altered from, in Two Lines as "The Call of Tangena" and "How to Become a Slave" --from title page verso

ISBN:

1632061317

9781632061317

OCLC:

975139829

Publisher Number:

99973883779