La Deseada

La Deseada

by Maryse Condé
La Deseada

La Deseada

by Maryse Condé

Paperback(Spanish-language Edition)

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Overview

¿Qué sucede cuando el amor propio convive con el dolor y la vanidad? ¿Cómo se puede vivir en el misterio y la inquietud de no tener una historia que contar? Maryse Condé responde a estas preguntas desde el relato de tres generaciones de mujeres isleñas unidas por la fuerza de la sangre, los abusos y la violencia. Esta novela es también el viaje que inicia Marie-Noëlle para unir las piezas del puzle de su identidad desde la isla de Guadalupe hasta Francia y los Estados Unidos. Maternidades no deseadas y hombres de dudosa moral, La Deseada es una novela que responde a un grito particular: solo desde la invención de una lengua propia se empieza a vivir.

What happens when self-love coexists with pain and vanity? How can you live in the mystery and restlessness of not having a story to tell? Maryse Condé answers these questions from the story of three generations of island women united by the force of blood, abuse and violence. This novel is also Marie-Noëlle's journey to piece together the puzzle of her identity from the island of Guadeloupe to France and the United States. Unwanted motherhood and men of dubious morals, Desirada is a novel that responds to a particular cry: only since the invention of one's own language does one begin to live.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788417553883
Publisher: Batiscafo
Publication date: 10/04/2022
Edition description: Spanish-language Edition
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.80(d)
Language: Spanish

About the Author

Maryse Condé is the Grande Dame of Caribbean Literature. She was born in Guadeloupe in 1934 as the youngest of eight siblings. She taught Francophone Literature at Colombia Universityin New York, and lived there for many years. She has also lived in various West African countries, most notably in Mali, where she gained inspiration for her worldwide bestseller Segu, for which she was awarded the African Literature Prize and several other respected French awards. Condé was awarded the 2018 New Academy Prize (or "Alternative Nobel") in Literature as well as the 2021 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca for her oeuvre. She also received the Grand-Croix de l'Ordre national du Mérite from President Emmanuel Macron in 2020. She conquered the hearts of many readers in English-language territories with her novels The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana and Waiting for the Waters to Rise, longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature in the US.
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