{"product_id":"9780374606770-beyond-the-door-of-no-return-a-novel","title":"Diop David - Beyond The Door Of No Return A Novel - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: A Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature One of The Atlantic's 10 Best Books of 2023 A Financial Times Best Book of 2023 | Named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews A hypnotic powerful historical novel in which stories nest within one another like dolls It all coheres mesmerizingly. Cl mence Michallon The New York Times Book Review Stunningly realized Exquisite A spellbinding novel. Maaza Mengiste author of The Shadow King The thrilling and deeply moving new novel by David Diop winner of the International Booker Prize. Paris 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires the last word to escape his lips is a woman's name: Maram. The key to this mysterious woman's identity is Adanson's unpublished memoir of the years he spent in Senegal concealed in a secret compartment in a chest of drawers. Therein lies a story as fantastical as it is tragic: Maram it turns out is none other than the fabled revenant. A young woman of noble birth from the kingdom of Waalo Maram was sold into slavery but managed to escape from the Island of Gor e a major embarkation point of the transatlantic slave trade to a small village hidden in the forest. While on a research expedition in West Africa as a young man Adanson hears the story of the revenant and becomes obsessed with finding her. Accompanied by his guide he ventures deep into the Senegalese bush on a journey that reveals not only the savagery of the French colonial occupation but also the unlikely transports of the human heart. Written with sensitivity and narrative flair David Diop's Beyond the Door of No Return is a love story like few others. Drawing on the richness and lyricism of Senegal's oral traditions Diop has constructed a historical epic of the highest order.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Beyond The Door Of No Return A Novel\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Diop David\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780374606770\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 256 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 9\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"Diop David","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49595154268465,"sku":"IN-G-9780374606770","price":21.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780374606770.jpg?v=1724370710","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780374606770-beyond-the-door-of-no-return-a-novel","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}