Publisher Description
The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynasty
It is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. Yet Dousika Traore, the king's most trusted advisor, feels nothing but dread. Change is coming. From the East, a new religion, Islam. From the West, the slave trade. These forces will tear his country, his village and the lives of his beloved sons apart, in Maryse Condé's glittering epic.
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Set in an 18h-century African kingdom, Conde's novel examines the cultural transformations brought about by the rise of Islam and the slave trade.
GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2017
6 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
493
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Books Ltd
PROVIDER INFO
Penguin Books Limited
SIZE
6.1
MB