"The door to the journey of no return" is the nickname given to the island of Gorée, from which millions of Africans left at the time of the slave trade. It is in what was a French concession in 1750 that a young man arrives, having come to Senegal to study the local flora. A botanist, he cherishes the dream of establishing a universal encyclopedia of living things, in a century when the time has come for the Enlightenment. When he hears of the story of 'a young African promised to slavery and who would have managed to escape, finding refuge somewhere on the borders of Senegalese land, her journey and her destiny change into the stubborn quest of this lost woman who has left behind a thousand tracks and as many legends. Inspired by the figure of Michel Adanson, French naturalist (1727-1806), David Diop signs a dazzling novel, a powerful evocation of a kingdom where speech is queen, a moving odyssey of two beings who never cease to come together, to love each other and to lose each other, transmission of a heritage from a father to his daughter, the ultimate recipient of the notebooks which relate this hidden journey. Born in Paris in 1966, David Diop grew up in Senegal and is a lecturer at the University of Pau. He signs, with The Door of the Journey of No Return, his third novel, after the success of Frère d'âme (winner of the 2018 Goncourt prize for high school students and translated in sixteen countries).
Data sheet
No. of pages:
320
Editorial:
THRESHOLD
Language:
FRENCH
Binding:
Soft cover
ISBN:
9782021487855
Year of edition:
2021
Release date:
08/19/2021 "
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