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Tropic of Violence

Nathacha Appanah, Geoffrey Strachan

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      Marie, a nurse on the island of Mayotte, adopts an abandoned baby and names him Moïse, raising him as a French boy. As he grows up, Moïse struggles with his status as an "outsider" and to understand why he was abandoned as a baby. When Marie dies, he is left alone, plunged into uncertainty and turmoil, ending up in the largest and most infamous slum on Mayotte, nicknamed "Gaza".Narrated by five different characters, Tropic of Violence is an exploration of lost youth on the French island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. Shining a powerful light on problems of violence, immigration, identity, deprivation and isolation on this island that became a French département in 2011, it is a remarkable, unsettling new novel that draws on the author's own observations from her time on Mayotte.Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan
      CONTRIBUTORS: Nathacha Appanah, Geoffrey Strachan EAN: 9780857057716 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 120 g HEIGHT: 194 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Quercus Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society WIDTH: 128 cm SPINE:

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      Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction in translation

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      Cleo Theron
      Tropic of Violence

      The English translation of Tropique de la violence, it's a beautifully written and intense novel.

      Nathacha Appanah, was born in Mauritius in 1973. She was brought up there and worked as a journalist before moving to France in 1998. The Last Brother, her first novel to be translated into English, was awarded the FNAC Fiction Prize in 2007 in its French edition. Her novel Tropic of Violence was winner of the Prix Femina des Lyceens in 2016, as well as seven other French literary awards.

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      Marie, a nurse on the island of Mayotte, adopts an abandoned baby and names him Moïse, raising him as a French boy. As he grows up, Moïse struggles with his status as an "outsider" and to understand why he was abandoned as a baby. When Marie dies, he is left alone, plunged into uncertainty and turmoil, ending up in the largest and most infamous slum on Mayotte, nicknamed "Gaza".Narrated by five different characters, Tropic of Violence is an exploration of lost youth on the French island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. Shining a powerful light on problems of violence, immigration, identity, deprivation and isolation on this island that became a French département in 2011, it is a remarkable, unsettling new novel that draws on the author's own observations from her time on Mayotte.Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan
      CONTRIBUTORS: Nathacha Appanah, Geoffrey Strachan EAN: 9780857057716 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 120 g HEIGHT: 194 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Quercus Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society WIDTH: 128 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction in translation

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      Cleo Theron
      Tropic of Violence

      The English translation of Tropique de la violence, it's a beautifully written and intense novel.

      Nathacha Appanah, was born in Mauritius in 1973. She was brought up there and worked as a journalist before moving to France in 1998. The Last Brother, her first novel to be translated into English, was awarded the FNAC Fiction Prize in 2007 in its French edition. Her novel Tropic of Violence was winner of the Prix Femina des Lyceens in 2016, as well as seven other French literary awards.

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      Cleo Theron
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      The English translation of Tropique de la violence, it's a beautifully written and intense novel.

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