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• Author/Creator:Diop, David, 1966- author.
  
• Uniform Title:[Porte du voyage sans retour. English]
  
• Title:Beyond the door of no return / David Diop ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
  
• ISBN:9780374606770
  0374606773
  
• Edition:First American edition.
  
• Publication:New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
  
• Copyright notice date: ©2023
  
• Physical Description:243 pages ; 22 cm
  

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  • Call Number: PQ3989.2.D563 P6713 2023 (LC)
    
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• Summary:"A historical novel about a French botanist's search for a mysterious woman who escaped from slavery in Senegal"--
  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 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 The key to this mysterious woman's identity is Adanson's unpublished memoir of the years he spent in Senegal, concealed in a secret compartment in a chest of drawers.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 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 Gorée, 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.
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Adanson, Michel, 1727-1806--Fiction.
  Adanson, Michel, 1727-1806.
  Botanists--Fiction.
  Enslaved women--Fiction.
  Slavery--Fiction.
  Botanists.
  Senegal--Fiction.
  France--Colonies--Africa--Fiction.
  
• Also listed under:Taylor, Sam, 1970- translator.