Tree of Life

Author: Maryse Condé
ISBN: 9780345360748

The New York Times Book Review hailed Segu, Maryse Conde's unforgettable saga of nineteenth-century Africa as "the most significant historical novel about black Africa published in many a year". Children of Segu, the gripping sequel, was greeted with the acclaim due to a master storyteller at the height of her gifts. Now, with Tree of Life, Conde turns her impassioned, epic eye to the chaos and upheaval of the twentieth century. Rapidly shifting back and forth between Guadeloupe and Harlem, moving from Haiti's desperate slums to the exclusive enclaves of the Parisian upper class, this deeply personal story traces one Guadeloupe family's rise from poverty to riches through several generations. The story begins with Albert, the forebear, who leaves an island plantation to work on the Panama Canal and out of the horror of prejudice and oppression, fierily recreates himself as a man of immense wealth. We learn about his sons: Jacob, doomed to carry on his father's business but yearning for

Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publish Date: 1992

Subjects: Fiction / General

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