📱 eBook en inglés BEYOND THE DOOR OF NO RETURN

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED FICTION

Stunningly realized... A spellbinding novelMAAZA MENGISTE, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Shadow King

Diop has opened a new way of thinking about the eighteenth century and its hideous crueltiesABDULRAZAK GURNAH, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

A compelling romantic adventure... Through an act of remembrance, Diop seeks to build a repository of lives and histories lost to the slave tradeFINANCIAL TIMES

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The captivating new novel from David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize

Paris, 1806. Michel Adanson is dying. The last word to escape his lips is a womans name: Maram. Who was she? Why, in the course of his long life, has he never spoken of her before?

As Adansons daughter sorts through his things, she discovers a notebook. It reveals a secret history both fantastical and terrible, of his time as a young botanist travelling in Senegal.

How Adanson first heard of the revenant: a young woman of noble birth, abducted and sold into slavery across the seas, who then did the impossible-she came back, to live in hiding.

How he became obsessed with finding her, embarking on an odyssey that would lead to danger and destruction.

How a man who longed to solve the mysteries of nature instead found himself faced with the uncontrollable impulses of the human heart.

Tragic and tender, alive with feeling, this is a story of adventure, revenge and impossible desires, one which subverts our every expectation about who we are and who we love.