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Season of the Shadow

by Miano , Léonora
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780857428714
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: General Books
  • Publisher: Seagull Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Seagull
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 248
  • Original Price: INR 699.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 500 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

Now in paperback, a brutal and dreamlike story about the first victims of the transatlantic slave trade.

This powerful novel presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from a new perspective: that of the sub-Saharan population that became its first victims. Cameroonian novelist Léonora Miano presents a world on the brink of disappearing--a pre-colonial civilization with roots that stretch back for centuries. One day, a group of villagers finds twelve of their people missing. Where have they gone? Who is responsible? A collective dream, troubling a group of mothers in a communal dwelling, may have some of the answers, as the women's missing sons call to them in terror; at the same time, a thick shadow settles over the huts, blocking out the light of day. It is the shadow of slavery, which will soon grow to blight the whole world.

Miano renders this brutal story in deliberately strange, dreamlike prose, befitting a situation that is, on its face, all but impossible for the villagers to believe.

Miano, Léonora: - Léonora Miano was born in 1973 in Doula, Cameroon. She is author of nearly twenty works of fiction and non-fiction. Her writing has won numerous literary awards, including the Prix Femina in 2013 for Season of the Shadow, published by Seagull Books in 2018.

Walker, Gila: -

Gila Walker is the translator of more than a hundred works in French, including texts by Jacques Derrida, François Jullien, and Tzvetan Todorov. She divides her time between her homes in New York and the southwest of France.

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