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From the author of the International Booker Prize-winning At Night All Blood is Black: a moving and immersive adventure story set in eighteenth century SenegalParis, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson is dying. His last word is a woman's name: Maram.But who was she?Searching for the answer, Adanson's daughter discovers a journal of his youthful travels in Senegal, which tellsa story of wild adventure and impossible desires. It reveals how he heard of a young woman sold into slavery who did the impossible and returned. How he became obsessed with finding her, whatever the cost.And how a man who longed to solve the mysteries of nature instead found himself grappling with the impulses of the heart.
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Diop, David
- ISBN13 9781782278412
- ISBN10 1782278419
- Pages 256
- Published 2024
- Language English
Beyond the Door of No Return
- Author David Diop
- Publisher
- ISBN 9781782278412
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