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Over seas of memory : a novel / Michaël Ferrier ; translated by Martin Munro ; foreword by Patrick Chamoiseau.
Van Pelt Library PQ2706.E775 M4513 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferrier, Michaël, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Mémoires d'outre-mer. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 211 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "In this novel based loosely on the author's life, the narrator traces the colorful story of his Mauritius-born grandfather, Maxime, who abruptly boarded a boat bound for Madagascar in 1922 and never returned. Ferrier narrates a tale of discovery, weaving personal stories with the island's history"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A man leaving
- France and its offshoots
- The red circus
- In praise of the acrobat
- Boxing by the waterside
- Queer-looking specimen
- Mixed-race montaigne
- The colonial specter
- Creole jazz band
- Presences of the plague
- The madagascar project
- The war of the airwaves
- Walkway of lonely death.
- Notes:
- "Over Seas of Memory was first published in French as Mémoires d'outre-mer. Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2015."
- ISBN:
- 9781496213204
- 1496213203
- OCLC:
- 1064216846
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