Season of the Shadow

By:

Leonora Miano

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

The French List

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Now in paperback, a brutal and dreamlike story about the first victims of the transatlantic slave trade. This powerful novel presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from a new perspective: that of the sub-Saharan population that became its first victims. Cameroonian novelist Léonora Miano presents a world on the brink of disappearing—a pre-colonial civilization with roots that stretch back for centuries. One day, a group of villagers find twelve of their people missing. Where have they gone? Who is responsible? A collective dream, troubling a group of mothers in a communal dwelling, may have some of the answers, as the women’s missing sons call to them in terror; at the same time, a thick shadow settles over the huts, blocking out the light of day. It is the shadow of slavery, which will soon grow to blight the whole world. Miano renders this brutal story in deliberately strange, dreamlike prose, befitting a situation that is, on its face, all but impossible for the villagers to believe.

Author Biography:

Léonora Miano is a Cameroonian writer who lives in France. She is the author of seven novels and two collections of essays. Season of the Shadow is her second book to be translated into English; her debut novel, Dark Heart of the Night, won the Prix Femina when it was published in French in 2013. Gila Walker is a translator who splits her time between New York City and southwestern France.

Release date Australia

August 12th, 2021

Author

Leonora Miano

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Translated by Gila Walker

Pages

248

Series

The French List

Dimensions

127x203x20

ISBN-13

9780857428714

Product ID

34783123

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