![]() ![]() Virtually every page glitters with nuggets of cultural fascination Richly textured and detailed, this narrative, alternating between the lives of various characters, illuminates magnificently a little known historical period. This generational family saga has so many layers that I can read and reread it, in between figuring out how to build a raftĪ wondrous novel about a period of African history few other writers have. If there were no tools on a desert island, I would take Segu by Maryse Conde. It sprawls over continents and centuries to find its way into the reader's heart' - Maya Angelou 'A stunning reaffirmation of Africa and its peoples. Read more sons apart, in Maryse Conde's glittering epic. These forces will tear his country, his village and the lives of his beloved. Yet Dousika Traore, the king's most trusted advisor, feels nothing but dread. Winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize for Literature 2018 The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynasty It is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. ![]()
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