Segu

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Penguin Books Limited, 2017 M04 6 - 512 pages

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. Yet Dousika Traore, the king's most trusted advisor, feels nothing but dread. Change is coming. From the East, a new religion, Islam. From the West, the slave trade. These forces will tear his country, his village and the lives of his beloved sons apart, in Maryse Condé's glittering epic.

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Segu: A Novel
Maryse Conde
Limited preview - 1996
Segu: A Novel
Maryse Condé
Snippet view - 1987
Segu: A Novel
Maryse Conde
Snippet view - 1996
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About the author (2017)

Maryse Condé (Author)
Maryse Condé was born at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, in 1937 and spent most of her life in West Africa (Guinea, Ghana and Senegal), France and the US, where she taught at the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA and Columbia. The publication of her bestselling third novel, Segu (1984), established her pre-eminent position among Caribbean writers. She won Le Grand Prix Littéraire de la Femme in 1986 as well as Le Prix de L'Académie Française in 1988 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015.

Bibliographic information

TitleSegu
Penguin Modern Classics
AuthorMaryse Condé
Translated byBarbara Bray
PublisherPenguin Books Limited, 2017
ISBN0241293529, 9780241293522
Length512 pages
  
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